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Time-constrained automata

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In this paper, we augment the input-output automaton model in order to reason about time in concurrent systems, and we prove simple properties of this augmentation. The input-output automata model is a useful model for reasoning about computation in concurrent and distributed systems because it allows fundamental properties such as fairness and compositionality to be expressed easily and naturally. A unique property of the model is that systems are modeled as the composition of autonomous components. This paper describes a way to add a notion of time to the model in a way that preserves these properties. The result is a simple, compositional model for real-time computation that provides a convenient notation for expressing timing properties such as bounded fairness.

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  1. AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, 07974, Murray Hill, NJ

    Michael Merritt

  2. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA

    Francesmary Modugno

  3. DEC Cambridge Research Lab, One Kendall Sq., Bldg. 700, 02139, Cambridge, MA

    Mark R. Tuttle

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Merritt, M., Modugno, F., Tuttle, M.R. (1991). Time-constrained automata. In: Baeten, J.C.M., Groote, J.F. (eds) CONCUR '91. CONCUR 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54430-5_103

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