Notes:
The original publication is available at link.springer.com.
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Abstract.
This paper reports on the implementation and the experiments with symbolic
model checking of continuous-time Markov chains using multi-terminal
binary decision diagrams (MTBDDs).
Properties are expressed in Continuous Stochastic Logic (CSL) [7]
which includes the means to express both transient and steady-state performance
measures.
We show that all CSL operators can be treated using standard operations
on MTBDDs, thus allowing a rather straightforward implementation of
symbolic CSL model checking on existing MTBDD-based platforms such as
the verifier PRISM.
The main result of the paper is an improvement of O(N) in the time
complexity of checking time-bounded until-formulas, where N is the number
of states in the CTMC under consideration.
This result yields a drastic speed-up in the verification time of model
checking CTMCs, both in the symbolic and non-symbolic case.
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