Long-Run Average Behaviour of Probabilistic Vector Addition Systems

DOI10.1109/LICS.2015.15zbMATH Open1392.68284arXiv1505.02655OpenAlexW1580897786MaRDI QIDQ4635790FDOQ4635790

Antonin Kučera, Stefan Kiefer, Petr Novotný, Tomáš Brázdil

Publication date: 23 April 2018

Published in: 2015 30th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the pattern frequency vector for runs in probabilistic Vector Addition Systems with States (pVASS). Intuitively, each configuration of a given pVASS is assigned one of finitely many patterns, and every run can thus be seen as an infinite sequence of these patterns. The pattern frequency vector assigns to each run the limit of pattern frequencies computed for longer and longer prefixes of the run. If the limit does not exist, then the vector is undefined. We show that for one-counter pVASS, the pattern frequency vector is defined and takes only finitely many values for almost all runs. Further, these values and their associated probabilities can be approximated up to an arbitrarily small relative error in polynomial time. For stable two-counter pVASS, we show the same result, but we do not provide any upper complexity bound. As a byproduct of our study, we discover counterexamples falsifying some classical results about stochastic Petri nets published in the~80s.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02655

zbMATH Keywords

computational complexitystochastic processesPetri netsvectorsprobabilit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Probability in computer science (algorithm analysis, random structures, phase transitions, etc.) (68Q87) Models and methods for concurrent and distributed computing (process algebras, bisimulation, transition nets, etc.) (68Q85)

Cited In (4)

• Multi-Dimensional Long-Run Average Problems for Vector Addition Systems with States
• Long-Run Average Behavior of Vector Addition Systems with States
• Qualitative Analysis of VASS-Induced MDPs
• On the Existence and Computability of Long-Run Average Properties in Probabilistic VASS

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