Automatic synthesis of schedulers in timed systems

Abstract In this article we present a synthesis technique for generating schedulers for real-time systems. The aim of the scheduler is to ensure (via restricting the general behaviour) that the real-time system satisfies the specification. The real-time system and the specification are described as Alur-Dill timed automata while the synthesised scheduler is a type of timed trajectory automaton. We also note a simple constraint that the specification has to satisfy for this technique to be useful.

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