The Satisfiability Problem for Unbounded Fragments of Probabilistic CTL

Authors Jan Kretínský , Alexej Rotar



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Jan Kretínský
  • Technical University of Munich, Germany
Alexej Rotar
  • Technical University of Munich, Germany

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Jan Kretínský and Alexej Rotar. The Satisfiability Problem for Unbounded Fragments of Probabilistic CTL. In 29th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 118, pp. 32:1-32:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.32

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We investigate the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problem for probabilistic computation-tree logic (PCTL) where operators are not restricted by any step bounds. We establish decidability for several fragments containing quantitative operators and pinpoint the difficulties arising in more complex fragments where the decidability remains open.

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  • Theory of computation → Modal and temporal logics
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  • temporal logic
  • probabilistic verification
  • probabilistic computation tree logic
  • satisfiability

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