[BKN99]
C. Baier, M. Kwiatkowska and G. Norman.
Computing Probability Lower and Upper Bounds for LTL Formulae over Sequential and Concurrent Markov Chains.
In C. Baier and M. Huth and M. Kwiatkowska and M. Ryan (editors), Proc. 1st Probabilistic Methods in Verification Workshop (PROBMIV'98), volume 22 of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier Science.
June 1999.
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Notes:
ENTCS is available at www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15710661.
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Abstract.
Probabilistic verification of concurrent probabilistic systems against
linear time specifications is known to be expensive in terms of time
and space: time is double exponential in the size of the formula and
polynomial in the size of the state space, and space complexity is
single exponential. This paper proposes to compute
for a linear time formula only a lower and upper bound on the
probability measure of the set of paths satisfying it, instead of
calculating the exact probability. This yields a coarser estimate,
namely an interval of values in [0,1] which contains the
actual probability, but the calculation is simpler and more efficient
(time is single exponential and
space complexity is linear), and could thus be useful as an initial
check in a model checking tool.
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