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Lazy Probabilistic Model Checking without Determinisation

Authors Ernst Moritz Hahn, Guangyuan Li, Sven Schewe, Andrea Turrini, Lijun Zhang

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Ernst Moritz Hahn
Guangyuan Li
Sven Schewe
Andrea Turrini
Lijun Zhang

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Ernst Moritz Hahn, Guangyuan Li, Sven Schewe, Andrea Turrini, and Lijun Zhang. Lazy Probabilistic Model Checking without Determinisation. In 26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 42, pp. 354-367, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.354

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The bottleneck in the quantitative analysis of Markov chains and Markov decision processes against specifications given in LTL or as some form of nondeterministic Büchi automata is the inclusion of a determinisation step of the automaton under consideration.
In this paper, we show that full determinisation can be avoided: subset and breakpoint constructions suffice. We have implemented our approach - both explicit and symbolic versions - in a prototype tool. Our experiments show that our prototype can compete with mature tools like PRISM.

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  • Markov decision processes
  • model checking
  • PLTL
  • determinisation

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