Concavely-Priced Timed Automata

  • Authors:
  • Marcin Jurdziński;Ashutosh Trivedi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK;Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK

  • Venue:
  • FORMATS '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Concavely-priced timed automata, a generalization of linearly-priced timed automata, are introduced. Computing the minimum value of a number of cost functions--including reachability price, discounted price, average time, average price, price-per-time average, and price-per-reward average--is considered in a uniform fashion for concavely-priced timed automata. All the corresponding decision problems are shown to be PSPACE-complete. This paper generalises the recent work of Bouyer et al. on deciding the minimum reachability price and the minimum ratio-price for linearly-priced timed automata.A new type of a region graph--the boundary region graph--is defined, which generalizes the corner-point abstraction of Bouyer et al. A broad class of cost functions--concave-regular cost functions--is introduced, and the boundary region graph is shown to be a correct abstraction for deciding the minimum value of concave-regular cost functions for concavely-priced timed automata.