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标题：Efficient Timed Reachability Analysis using Clock Difference Diagrams
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作者：Gerd Behrmann ; Kim G. Larsen ; Justin Pearson 等
期刊名称：BRICS Report Series
印刷版ISSN：0909-0878
出版年度：1998
卷号：5
期号：47
出版社：Aarhus University
摘要：One of the major problems in applying automatic verication tools to industrial-size systems is the excessive amount of memory required during the state-space exploration of a model. In the setting of real-time, this problem of state-explosion requires extra attention as information must be kept not only on the discrete control structure but also on the values of continuous clock variables. In this paper, we present Clock Dierence Diagrams, CDD's, a BDD-like data-structure for representing and eectively manipulating certain non-convex subsets of the Euclidean space, notably those encountered during verication of timed automata. A version of the real-time verication tool Uppaal using CDD's as a compact datastructure for storing explored symbolic states has been implemented. Our experimental results demonstrate signicant space-savings: for 8 industrial examples, the savings are between 46% and 99% with moderate increase in runtime. We further report on how the symbolic state-space exploration itself may be carried out using CDD's.