Regular expressions with timed dominoes

  • Authors:
  • Cătălin Dima

  • Affiliations:
  • ENSEIR, Talence Cedex, France and LaBRI, Talence Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • DMTCS'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We give a class of timed regular expressions that involve the use of colored parentheses for specifying timing constraints. The expressions are given in a matricial format, and their semantics is based upon an "overlapping concatenation" of timed words. We then give a calculus for emptiness checking of a regular expression, that does not go through translating expressions into timed automata. To this end we use the class of 2n-automata, studied in a parallel paper [Dim02] in connection with the problem of representing timing constraints.