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Extension of PRISM by Synthesis of Optimal Timeouts in Fixed-Delay CTMC

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KORENČIAK Ľuboš ŘEHÁK Vojtěch FARMADIN Adrian

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Integrated Formal Methods
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Faculty of Informatics

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Web http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-33693-0_9
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33693-0_9
Field Informatics
Keywords CTMC; DSPN; synthesis; timeout; expected reward; PRISM model checker
Description We present a practically appealing extension of the probabilistic model checker PRISM rendering it to handle fixed-delay continuous-time Markov chains (fdCTMCs) with rewards, the equivalent formalism to the deterministic and stochastic Petri nets (DSPNs). fdCTMCs allow transitions with fixed-delays (or timeouts) on top of the traditional transitions with exponential rates. Our extension supports an evaluation of expected reward until reaching a given set of target states. The main contribution is that, considering the fixed-delays as parameters, we implemented a synthesis algorithm that computes the epsilon-optimal values of the fixed-delays minimizing the expected reward. We provide a performance evaluation of the synthesis on practical examples.
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