Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Probabilistic Systems and Their Verification

Seminar
Speaker: Kamal Lodaya (Institute of Mathematical Sciences IV Cross Road CIT Campus Taramani Chennai 600113)
Organiser: John Barretto
Date: Friday, 8 Jun 2012, 11:30 to 12:30
Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room)

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Abstract:  The study of automata with probabilistic behaviour began with Rabin (1963). Using transition systems as models, specifying their behaviour using formulas of temporal logic and checking that such a system satisfies its specification was formulated by Hansson and Jonsson (1994) and by Bianco and de Alfaro (in FSTTCS 1995). Unlike the key idea on which non-probabilistic model checking is based, emptiness of probabilistic automata is undecidable, shown by Paz (1971).