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Timed Alternating-Time Temporal Logic

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Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2006)

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Abstract

We add freeze quantifiers to the game logic ATL in order to specify real-time objectives for games played on timed structures. We define the semantics of the resulting logic TATL by restricting the players to physically meaningful strategies, which do not prevent time from diverging. We show that TATL can be model checked over timed automaton games. We also specify timed optimization problems for physically meaningful strategies, and we show that for timed automaton games, the optimal answers can be approximated to within any degree of precision.

This research was supported in part by the NSF grants CCR-0208875, CCR-0225610, and CCR-0234690.

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  1. Department of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL,  

    Thomas A. Henzinger

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

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    Eugene Asarin

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    Patricia Bouyer

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Henzinger, T.A., Prabhu, V.S. (2006). Timed Alternating-Time Temporal Logic. In: Asarin, E., Bouyer, P. (eds) Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems. FORMATS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11867340_1

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