
Timed automata are a widely used formalism for specifying the discrete-state/continuous-time behavior of time-critical reactive systems. For the fundamental verification problem of comparing two timed automata, it has been shown that timed trace equivalence is undecidable, while timed bisimulation is decidable. The corresponding decidability proof uses region graphs, a finite but space-consuming characterization of timed automata semantics. Most verification tools use zone graphs instead, a symbolic and, on average, more space-efficient representation of timed automata semantics. However, zone graphs provide correct results only for those verification tasks that are reducible to reachability problems, and are too imprecise for timed bisimilarity checking. To the best of our knowledge, there is currently no practical tool for automated timed bisimilarity checking. In this paper, we propose a new representation of timed automata semantics that extends zone graphs by so-called virtual clocks. Our zone-based construction is, on average, significantly smaller than the corresponding region graph representation. We also present experimental results obtained by applying our tool implementation to timed automata models, which are often used to evaluate timed automata analysis techniques.
Structure connectivity and substructure connectivity are innovative indicators for assessing network reliability and fault tolerance. Similarly, fault diameter evaluates fault tolerance and transmission delays in networks. This paper extends the concept of fault diameter by introducing two new variants: structure fault diameter and substructure fault diameter, derived from structure connectivity and substructure connectivity respectively. For a connected graph G with W-structure connectivity kappa(G;W ) or W-substructure connectivity kappa(s)(G;W ), the W -structure fault diameter D f (G;W ) and W-substructure fault diameter D-f(s)(G;W ) are defined as the maxi-mum diameter of any subgraph of G resulting from removing up to kappa(G;W ) - 1 W -structures or kappa(s)(G;W )-1 W -substructures. For the n-dimensional hypercube Q(n) with n >= 3 and 1 <= m <= n-2, we determine both D-f(Q(n); Q(m)) and D-f(s)(Q(n); Q(1)). These findings generalize existing results for the diameter and fault diameter of Q(n), providing a broader understanding of the hypercube's struc-tural properties under fault conditions
Cycloids are particular Petri nets for modelling processes of actions and events, belonging to the fundaments of Petri's general systems theory. Defined by four parameters they provide an algebraic formalism to describe strongly synchronized sequential processes. To further investigate their structure, reduction systems of cycloids are defined in the style of rewriting systems and properties of irreducible cycloids are proved. In particular the synthesis of cycloid parameters from their Petri net structure is derived, leading to an efficient method for a decision procedure for cycloid isomorphism.
In this paper, we broaden the understanding of the recently introduced concepts of solid-locating-dominating and self-locating-dominating codes in various graphs. In particular, we present the optimal, i.e., smallest possible, codes in the infinite triangular and king grids. Furthermore, we give optimal locating-dominating, self-locating-dominating and solid-locating-dominating codes in the direct product $K_n\times K_m$ of complete graphs. We also present optimal solid-locating-dominating codes for the Hamming graphs $K_q\square K_q\square K_q$ with $q\geq2$.
Formal theories of arithmetic have traditionally been based on either classical or intuitionistic logic, leading to the development of Peano and Heyting arithmetic, respectively. We propose to use $\mu$MALL as a formal theory of arithmetic based on linear logic. This formal system is presented as a sequent calculus proof system that extends the standard proof system for multiplicative-additive linear logic (MALL) with the addition of the logical connectives universal and existential quantifiers (first-order quantifiers), term equality and non-equality, and the least and greatest fixed point operators. We first demonstrate how functions defined using $\mu$MALL relational specifications can be computed using a simple proof search algorithm. By incorporating weakening and contraction into $\mu$MALL, we obtain $\mu$LK+, a natural candidate for a classical sequent calculus for arithmetic. While important proof theory results are still lacking for $\mu$LK+ (including cut-elimination and the completeness of focusing), we prove that $\mu$LK+ is consistent and that it contains Peano arithmetic. We also prove some conservativity results regarding $\mu$LK+ over $\mu$MALL.