The ins and outs of the probabilistic model checker MRMC

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 90-104

  Katoen, Joost Pieter ^a   Zapreev, Ivan S ^b   Hahn, Ernst Moritz ^c   Hermanns, Holger ^c   Jansen, David N ^d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bisimulation minimization; CTMC; CTMDP; Discrete event simulation; DTMC; Markov chains; Model checking; MRM; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

BISIMULATIONS; CTMC; CTMDP; DTMC; MARKOV CHAIN; MRM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 78751571321     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2010.04.001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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