Verifying Time-bounded Properties for ELECTRE Reactive Programs with Stopwatch Automata

We present the automatic verification of time-bounded properties of programs written in the reactive language Electre. For this, Electre programs are translated into so-called stopwatch automata, automata with chronometers to measure time. Properties are expressed in the logic TCTL and model-checking algorithms are used to verify those properties on Electre stopwatch automata. We argue that timebounded TCTL is decidable on stopwatch automata.

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