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Composition of Stochastic Transition Systems Based on Spans and Couplings

Authors Daniel Gburek, Christel Baier, Sascha Klüppelholz



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Daniel Gburek
Christel Baier
Sascha Klüppelholz

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Daniel Gburek, Christel Baier, and Sascha Klüppelholz. Composition of Stochastic Transition Systems Based on Spans and Couplings. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 102:1-102:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.102

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Conventional approaches for parallel composition of stochastic systems relate probability measures of the individual components in terms of product measures. Such approaches rely on the assumption that components interact stochastically independent, which might be too rigid for modeling real world systems. In this paper, we introduce a parallel-composition operator for stochastic transition systems that is based on couplings of probability measures and does not impose any stochastic assumptions. When composing systems within our framework, the intended dependencies between components can be determined by providing so-called spans and span couplings. We present a congruence result for our operator with respect to a standard notion of bisimilarity and develop a general theory for spans, exploiting deep results from descriptive set theory. As an application of our general approach, we propose a model for stochastic hybrid systems called stochastic hybrid motion automata.
Keywords
  • Stochastic Transition System
  • Composition
  • Stochastic Hybrid Motion Automata
  • Stochastically Independent
  • Coupling
  • Span
  • Bisimulation
  • Congruence
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