Extension of PRISM by Synthesis of Optimal Timeouts in Fixed-Delay CTMC
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Integrated Formal Methods |
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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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