On decidability of prebisimulation for timed automata

  • Authors:
  • Shibashis Guha;Chinmay Narayan;S. Arun-Kumar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

  • Venue:
  • CAV'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an at least as fast as relation between two timed automata states and investigate its decidability. The proposed relation is a prebisimulation and we show that given two processes with rational clock valuations it is decidable whether such a prebisimulation relation exists between them. Though bisimulation relations have been widely studied with respect to timed systems and timed automata, prebisimulations in timed systems form a much lesser studied area and according to our knowledge, this is the first of the kind where we study the decidability of a timed prebisimulation. This prebisimulation has been termed timed performance prebisimulation since it compares the efficiency of two states in terms of their performances in performing actions. if s and t are time abstracted bisimilar and every possible delay by s and its successors is no more than the delays performed by t and its successors where the delays are real numbers. The prebisimilarity defined here falls in between timed and time abstracted bisimilarity.