id: 05898608 dt: j an: 05898608 au: Casagrande, Alberto ti: Hybrid automata and bisimulations. so: Rend. Ist. Mat. Univ. Trieste 42, 147-163 (2010). py: 2010 pu: Istituto di Matemàtica, Università di Trieste, Trieste la: EN cc: ut: hybrid systems; bisimulation; model checking; model checking problem over hybrid automata; model checking over finite models; finite bisimulation quotients ci: li: ab: Summary: This paper surveys hybrid automata and bisimulation relations. We formally introduce both notions and briefly present the model checking problem over hybrid automata. We show how, in some cases, bisimulations can be used to quotient infinite state systems to finite ones and, hence, we reduce the model checking over hybrid automata to model checking over finite models. Finally, we review some classes of hybrid automata which admit finite bisimulation quotients. rv: