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
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[KKNP01] Joost-Pieter Katoen, Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman and David Parker. Faster and Symbolic CTMC Model Checking. In L. de Alfaro and S. Gilmore (editors) Proc. PAPM/PROBMIV'01, volume 2165 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 23-38, Springer. September 2001. [ps.gz] [pdf] [bib]
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Abstract. This paper reports on the implementation and the experiments with symbolic model checking of continuous-time Markov chains using multi-terminal binary decision diagrams (MTBDDs). Properties are expressed in Continuous Stochastic Logic (CSL) [7] which includes the means to express both transient and steady-state performance measures. We show that all CSL operators can be treated using standard operations on MTBDDs, thus allowing a rather straightforward implementation of symbolic CSL model checking on existing MTBDD-based platforms such as the verifier PRISM. The main result of the paper is an improvement of O(N) in the time complexity of checking time-bounded until-formulas, where N is the number of states in the CTMC under consideration. This result yields a drastic speed-up in the verification time of model checking CTMCs, both in the symbolic and non-symbolic case.