Automatic verification of competitive stochastic systems

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-92

  Chen, Taolue ^a   Forejt, Vojtěch ^a   Kwiatkowska, Marta ^a   Parker, David ^b   Simaitis, Aistis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Probabilistic model checking; Probabilistic temporal logic; Quantitative verification; Stochastic multi player games

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; MODELLING AND ANALYSIS; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; PROBABILISTIC MODEL CHECKING; PROBABILISTIC SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC TEMPORAL LOGIC; QUANTITATIVE VERIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; MODEL CHECKING;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84880076914     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10703-013-0183-7     Document Type: Article

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