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This monograph presents the Timed Input/Output Automaton (TIOA)
modeling framework, a basic mathematical framework to support
description and analysis of timed (computing) systems. Timed
systems are systems in which desirable correctness or performance
properties of the system depend on the timing of events, not just
on the order of their occurrence. Timed systems are employed in a
wide range of domains including communications, embedded systems,
real-time operating systems, and automated control. Many
applications involving timed systems have strong safety,
reliability, and predictability requirements, which make it
important to have methods for systematic design of systems and
rigorous analysis of timing-dependent behavior. The TIOA framework
also supports description and analysis of timed distributed
algorithms -- distributed algorithms whose correctness and
performance depend on the relative speeds of processors, accuracy
of local clocks, or communication delay bounds. Such algorithms
arise, for example, in traditional and wireless communications,
networks of mobile devices, and shared-memory multiprocessors. The
need to prove rigorous theoretical results about timed distributed
algorithms makes it important to have a suitable mathematical
foundation. An important feature of the TIOA framework is its
support for decomposing timed system descriptions. In particular,
the framework includes a notion of external behavior for a timed
I/O automaton, which captures its discrete interactions with its
environment. The framework also defines what it means for one TIOA
to implement another, based on an inclusion relationship between
their external behavior sets, and defines notions of simulations,
which provide sufficient conditions for demonstrating
implementation relationships. The framework includes a composition
operation for TIOAs, which respects external behavior, and a notion
of receptiveness, which implies that a TIOA does not block the
passage of time. The TIOA framework also defines the notion of a
property and what it means for a property to be a safety or a
liveness property. It includes results that capture common proof
methods for showing that automata satisfy properties. Table of
Contents: Introduction / Mathematical Preliminaries / Describing
Timed System Behavior / Timed Automata / Operations on Timed
Automata / Properties for Timed Automata / Timed I/O Automata /
Operations on Timed I/O Automata / Conclusions and Future Work
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint International Workshop on Process Algebra and Performance Modeling and Probabilistic Methods in Verification, PAPM-PROBMIV 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2002.The 10 revised full papers and four abstracts presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. Among the issues addressed are fault-tolerant systems, security analysis, probabilistic protocols, reduction refinement, concurrency, model checking, stochastic modeling, local area network protocols, stochastic process algebras, and Petri nets.
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