Timed comparisons of semi-Markov processes

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-77313-1_21zbMATH Open1504.68112arXiv1711.10216OpenAlexW2768202271MaRDI QIDQ1647713FDOQ1647713

Mathias Ruggaard Pedersen, Giorgio Bacci, Nathanaël Fijalkow, Radu Mardare, Kim G. Larsen

Publication date: 26 June 2018

Abstract: Semi-Markov processes are Markovian processes in which the firing time of the transitions is modelled by probabilistic distributions over positive reals interpreted as the probability of firing a transition at a certain moment in time. In this paper we consider the trace-based semantics of semi-Markov processes, and investigate the question of how to compare two semi-Markov processes with respect to their time-dependent behaviour. To this end, we introduce the relation of being "faster than" between processes and study its algorithmic complexity. Through a connection to probabilistic automata we obtain hardness results showing in particular that this relation is undecidable. However, we present an additive approximation algorithm for a time-bounded variant of the faster-than problem over semi-Markov processes with slow residence-time functions, and a coNP algorithm for the exact faster-than problem over unambiguous semi-Markov processes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10216

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zbMATH Keywords

probabilistic automataautomatareal-time systemsprogram verificationsemi-Markov processessystem analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Formal languages and automata (68Q45) Markov renewal processes, semi-Markov processes (60K15) Specification and verification (program logics, model checking, etc.) (68Q60)

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