Model-checking for real-time systems

This research extends CTL model-checking to the analysis of real-time systems, whose correctness depends on the magnitudes of the timing delays. For specifications, the syntax of CTL is extended to allow quantitative temporal operators. The formulas of the resulting logic, TCTL, are interpretation over continuous computation trees, trees in which paths are maps from the set of nonnegative reals to system states. To model finite-state systems the notion of timed graphs is introduced-state-transition graphs extended with a mechanism that allows the expression of constant bounds on the delays between the state transition. As the main result, an algorithm is developed for model checking, that is, for determining…