Specifying Timed Systems and Their Properties.- Petri Nets with Time.- Timed Automata.- From Time Petri Nets to Timed Automata.- Main Formalisms for Expressing Temporal Properties.- Model Generation and Verification.- Abstract Models.- Explicit Verification.- Verification Based on Satisfiability Checking.

This monograph presents a comprehensive introduction to timed automata (TA) and time Petri nets (TPNs) which belong to the most widely used models of real-time systems. Some of the existing methods of translating time Petri nets to timed automata are presented, with a focus on the translations that correspond to the semantics of time Petri nets, associating clocks with various components of the nets.