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A Testing Scenario for Probabilistic Automata

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2003)

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Recently, a large number of equivalences for probabilistic automata has been proposed in the literature. Except for the probabilistic bisimulation of Larsen & Skou, none of these equivalences has been characterized in terms of an intuitive testing scenario. In our view, this is an undesirable situation: in the end, the behavior of an automaton is what an external observer perceives. In this paper, we propose a simple and intuitive testing scenario for probabilistic automata and we prove that the equivalence induced by this scenario coincides with the trace distribution equivalence proposed by Segala.

Research supported by PROGRESS Project TES4199, Verification of Hard and Softly Timed Systems (HaaST). A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the PhD thesis of the first author [Sto02a].

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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz

    Mariëlle Stoelinga

  2. Nijmegen Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Frits Vaandrager

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Jos C. M. Baeten

  2. School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0205, USA

    Jan Karel Lenstra

  3. Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 337, 75105, Uppsala, Sweden

    Joachim Parrow

  4. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Gerhard J. Woeginger

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Stoelinga, M., Vaandrager, F. (2003). A Testing Scenario for Probabilistic Automata. In: Baeten, J.C.M., Lenstra, J.K., Parrow, J., Woeginger, G.J. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2719. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45061-0_38

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