A general SOS theory for the specification of probabilistic transition systems

This article focuses on the formalization of the structured operational semantics approach for languages with primitives that introduce probabilistic and non-deterministic behavior. We define a general theoretic framework and present the ntμfθ/ntμxθ rule format that guarantees that bisimulation equi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: D'argenio, Pedro Ruben, Gebler, Daniel, Lee, Matias David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/156111
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/156111
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:SOS
PROBABILISTIC TRANSITION SYSTEMS
BISIMULACION
CONGRUENCE
RULE FORMAT
FULL ABSTRACTION
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:This article focuses on the formalization of the structured operational semantics approach for languages with primitives that introduce probabilistic and non-deterministic behavior. We define a general theoretic framework and present the ntμfθ/ntμxθ rule format that guarantees that bisimulation equivalence (in the probabilistic setting) is a congruence for any operator defined in this format. We show that the bisimulation is fully abstract w.r.t. the ntμfθ/ntμxθ format and (possibilistic) trace equivalence in the sense that bisimulation is the coarsest congruence included in trace equivalence for any operator definable within the ntμfθ/ntμxθ format (in other words, bisimulation is the smallest congruence relation guaranteed by the format). We also provide a conservative extension theorem and show that languages that include primitives for exponentially distributed time behavior (such as IMC and Markov automata based language) fit naturally within our framework.