Reachability for Multi-Priced Timed Automata with Positive and Negative Rates

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Main Authors: Scoones, Andrew, Shirmohammadi, Mahsa, Worrell, James
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author Scoones, Andrew
Shirmohammadi, Mahsa
Worrell, James
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Shirmohammadi, Mahsa
Worrell, James
contents Multi-priced timed automata (MPTA) are timed automata with observer variables whose derivatives can change from one location to another. Observers are write-only variables, that is, they do not affect the control flow of the automaton; thus MPTA lie between timed and hybrid automata in expressiveness. Previous work considered observers with non-negative slope in every location. In this paper we treat observers that have both positive and negative rates. Our main result is an algorithm to decide a gap version of the reachability problem for this variant of MPTA. We translate the gap reachability problem into a gap satisfiability problem for mixed integer-real systems of nonlinear constraints. Our main technical contribution -- a result of independent interest -- is a procedure to solve such contraints via a combination of branch-and-bound and relaxation-and-rounding.
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spellingShingle Reachability for Multi-Priced Timed Automata with Positive and Negative Rates
Scoones, Andrew
Shirmohammadi, Mahsa
Worrell, James
Formal Languages and Automata Theory
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Multi-priced timed automata (MPTA) are timed automata with observer variables whose derivatives can change from one location to another. Observers are write-only variables, that is, they do not affect the control flow of the automaton; thus MPTA lie between timed and hybrid automata in expressiveness. Previous work considered observers with non-negative slope in every location. In this paper we treat observers that have both positive and negative rates. Our main result is an algorithm to decide a gap version of the reachability problem for this variant of MPTA. We translate the gap reachability problem into a gap satisfiability problem for mixed integer-real systems of nonlinear constraints. Our main technical contribution -- a result of independent interest -- is a procedure to solve such contraints via a combination of branch-and-bound and relaxation-and-rounding.
title Reachability for Multi-Priced Timed Automata with Positive and Negative Rates
topic Formal Languages and Automata Theory
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url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18131