Three-valued abstraction for probabilistic systems

Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 356-389

  Katoen, Joost Pieter ^a   Klink, Daniel ^a   Leucker, Martin ^b   Wolf, Verena ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION METHODS; ABSTRACTION TECHNIQUES; CONTINUOUS STOCHASTIC LOGIC; CONTINUOUS TIME; CONTINUOUS TIME MARKOV CHAIN; KRIPKE STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILISTIC COMPUTATION; PROBABILISTIC SYSTEMS; RESIDENCE TIME; STATE SPACE; THREE-VALUED; TIME-BOUNDED REACHABILITY; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; VERIFICATION RESULTS;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTICS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84860388553     PISSN: 15678326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlap.2012.03.007     Document Type: Article

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