Modelling Timeouts without Timelocks

  • Authors:
  • Howard Bowman

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ARTS '99 Proceedings of the 5th International AMAST Workshop on Formal Methods for Real-Time and Probabilistic Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We address the issue of modelling a simple timeout in timed automata. We argue that expression of the timeout in the UPPAAL timed automata model is unsatisfactory. Specifically, the solutions we explore either allow timelocks or are prohibitively complex. In response we consider timed automata with deadlines which have the property that timelocks cannot be created when composing automata in parallel. We explore a number of different options for reformulating the timeout in this framework and then we relate them.