Diagnosability of pushdown systems

  • Authors:
  • Christophe Morvan;Sophie Pinchinat

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Paris-Est, Bretagne Atlantique;IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France

  • Venue:
  • HVC'09 Proceedings of the 5th international Haifa verification conference on Hardware and software: verification and testing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Partial observation of discrete-event systems features a setting where events split into observable and unobservable ones. In this context, the diagnosis of a discrete-event system consists in detecting defects from the (partial) observation of its executions. Diagnosability is the property that any defect is eventually detected. Not surprisingly, it is a major issue in practical applications. We investigate diagnosability for classes of pushdown systems: it is undecidable in general, but we exhibit reasonably large classes of visibly pushdown systems where the problem is decidable. For these classes, we furthermore prove the decidability of a stronger property: the bounded latency, which guarantees the existence of a uniform bound on the respond delay after the defect has occurred. We also explore a generalization of the approach to higher-order pushdown systems.