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Algorithms to Compute Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distances for Labelled Markov Chains

Authors Qiyi Tang, Franck van Breugel

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  • labelled Markov chain
  • probabilistic bisimilarity
  • pseudometric
  • policy iteration

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Abstract

In the late nineties, Desharnais, Gupta, Jagadeesan and Panangaden presented probabilistic bisimilarity distances on the states of a labelled Markov chain. This provided a quantitative generalisation of probabilistic bisimilarity introduced by Larsen and Skou a decade earlier. In the last decade, several algorithms to approximate and compute these probabilistic bisimilarity distances have been put forward. In this paper, we correct, improve and generalise some of these algorithms. Furthermore, we compare their performance experimentally.

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Qiyi Tang and Franck van Breugel. Algorithms to Compute Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distances for Labelled Markov Chains. In 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 85, pp. 27:1-27:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.27

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Qiyi Tang
Franck van Breugel

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