@InProceedings{bacci_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.104, author = {Bacci, Giovanni and Bacci, Giorgio and Larsen, Kim G. and Mardare, Radu}, title = {{On the Metric-Based Approximate Minimization of Markov Chains}}, booktitle = {44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)}, pages = {104:1--104:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-041-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2017}, volume = {80}, editor = {Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Indyk, Piotr and Kuhn, Fabian and Muscholl, Anca}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.104}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-73675}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.104}, annote = {Keywords: Behavioral distances, Probabilistic Models, Automata Minimization} }