A Logical Characterisation of Event Clock Automata
- 1 August 2003
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science
- Vol. 14 (4) , 625-639
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0129054103001923
Abstract
We show that the class of Event Clock Automata [2] admit a logical characterisation via an unrestricted monadic second order logic interpreted over timed words. The result is interesting in that it provides an unrestricted yet decidable logical characterisation of a non-trivial class of timed languages. A timed temporal logic considered earlier in the literature [11] is shown to be expressively complete with respect to the monadic logic.Keywords
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