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Undecidable Problems About Timed Automata
Author(s) -
Olivier Finkel
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
ISBN - 3-540-45026-2
DOI - 10.1007/11867340_14
Subject(s) - undecidable problem , timed automaton , computer science , automaton , complement (music) , regular language , theoretical computer science , algorithm , decidability , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype
We solve some decision problems for timed automata which were raised by S. Tripakis in [Tri04] and by E. Asarin in [Asa04]. In particular, we show that one cannot decide whether a given timed automaton is determinizable or whether the complement of a timed regular language is timed regular. We show that the problem of the minimization of the number of clocks of a timed automaton is undecidable. It is also undecidable whether the shuffle of two timed regular languages is timed regular. We show that in the case of timed Büchi automata accepting infinite timed words some of these problems are Π11-hard, hence highly undecidable (located beyond the arithmetical hierarchy).

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