David Parker

David Parker

Lecturer
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Email: d.a.parker@cs.bham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 121 41 47264
Office: 107
Office hours: Wed 12.30-1.30, Thu 3-4
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[DKPQ13] Klaus Draeger, Marta Kwiatkowska, David Parker and Hongyang Qu. Local Abstraction Refinement for Probabilistic Timed Programs. Theoretical Computer Science. To appear. 2013. [pdf] [bib] [Presents new techniques for abstraction refinement on probabilistic timed programs (probabilistic timed automata with data variables), implemented in an extension of PRISM.]
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Abstract. We consider models of programs that incorporate probability, dense real-time and data. We present a new abstraction refinement method for computing minimum and maximum reachability probabilities for such models. Our approach uses strictly local refinement steps to reduce both the size of abstractions generated and the complexity of operations needed, in comparison to previous approaches of this kind. We implement the techniques and evaluate them on a selection of large case studies, including some infinite-state probabilistic real-time models, demonstrating improvements over existing tools in several cases.