A symbolic out-of-core solution method for Markov models

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 589-604

  Kwiatkowska, Marta ^a   Mehmood, Rashid ^a   Norman, Gethin ^a   Parker, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; STATE SPACE METHODS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); VECTORS;

CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAINS (CTMC); MARKOV MODELS; PROBABILITY VECTORS; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 18944392683     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1571-0661(05)80394-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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