Reduction and Refinement Strategies for Probabilistic Analysis

TitleReduction and Refinement Strategies for Probabilistic Analysis
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2002
AuthorsD'Argenio, PR, Jeannet, B, Jensen, HE, Larsen, KG
EditorHermanns, H, Segala, R
Conference NameProcess Algebra and Probabilistic Methods, Performance Modeling and Verification, Second Joint International Workshop PAPM-PROBMIV 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 25-26, 2002, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
AbstractWe report on a novel development to model check quantitative reachability properties on Markov decision processes together with its prototype implementation. The innovation of the technique is that the analysis is performed on an abstraction of the model under analysis. Such an abstraction is significantly smaller than the original model and may safely refute or accept the required property. Otherwise, the abstraction is refined and the process repeated. As the numerical analysis necessary to determine the validity of the property is more costly than the refinement process, the technique profits from applying such numerical analysis on smaller state spaces.
DOI10.1007/3-540-44804-7_3
PDF (Full text):