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Motivated by applications in databases, this paper considers various fragments of the calculus of binary relations. The fragments are obtained by leaving out, or keeping in, some of the standard operators, along with some derived operators…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-03-31 George H. L. Fletcher , Marc Gyssens , Dirk Leinders , Jan Van den Bussche , Dirk Van Gucht , Stijn Vansummeren

Behavioural metrics provide a quantitative refinement of classical two-valued behavioural equivalences on systems with quantitative data, such as metric or probabilistic transition systems. In analogy to the linear-time/branching-time…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jonas Forster , Lutz Schröder , Paul Wild , Harsh Beohar , Sebastian Gurke , Barbara König , Karla Messing

In contrast to the usual understanding of probabilistic systems as stochastic processes, recently these systems have also been regarded as transformers of probabilities. In this paper, we give a natural definition of strong bisimulation for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Holger Hermanns , Jan Krčál , Jan Křetínský

In systems involving quantitative data, such as probabilistic, fuzzy, or metric systems, behavioural distances provide a more fine-grained comparison of states than two-valued notions of behavioural equivalence or behaviour inclusion. Like…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Paul Wild , Lutz Schröder

We introduce contextual behavioural metrics (CBMs) as a novel way of measuring the discrepancy in behaviour between processes, taking into account both quantitative aspects and contextual information. This way, process distances by…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ugo Dal Lago , Maurizio Murgia

Comparison to traditionally accurate computing, approximate computing focuses on the rapidity of the satisfactory solution, but not the unnecessary accuracy of the solution. Approximate bisimularity is the approximate one corresponding to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Yong Wang

It has been recently shown that probabilistic protocols based on postselection boost the performances of phase estimation and the replication of quantum clocks. Here we demonstrate that the improvements in these two tasks have to match…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 B. Gendra , J. Calsamiglia , R. Munoz-Tapia , E. Bagan , G. Chiribella

We quickly review labelled Markov processes (LMP) and provide a counterexample showing that in general measurable spaces, event bisimilarity and state bisimilarity differ in LMP. This shows that the logic in Desharnais [*] does not…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-13 Pedro Sánchez Terraf

We study bisimulation and context equivalence in a probabilistic $\lambda$-calculus. The contributions of this paper are threefold. Firstly we show a technique for proving congruence of probabilistic applicative bisimilarity. While the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Ugo Dal Lago , Davide Sangiorgi , Michele Alberti

Simulation and bisimulation metrics for stochastic systems provide a quantitative generalization of the classical simulation and bisimulation relations. These metrics capture the similarity of states with respect to quantitative…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Luca de Alfaro , Rupak Majumdar , Vishwanath Raman

We propose a logic for true concurrency whose formulae predicate about events in computations and their causal dependencies. The induced logical equivalence is hereditary history preserving bisimilarity, and fragments of the logic can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paolo Baldan , Silvia Crafa

In this paper we study the equivalence of nondeterministic automata pairing the concept of a bisimulation with the recently introduced concept of a uniform relation. In this symbiosis, uniform relations serve as equivalence relations which…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Miroslav Ćirić , Jelena Ignjatović , Milan Bašić , Ivana Jančić

In this paper we propose two behavioral distances that support approximate reasoning on Stochastic Markov Models (SMMs), that are continuous-time stochastic transition systems where the residence time on each state is described by a generic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Giorgio Bacci , Giovanni Bacci , Kim G. Larsen , Radu Mardare

In this paper we study strong and weak bisimulation equivalences for continuous-time Markov decision processes (CTMDPs) and the logical characterizations of these relations with respect to the continuous-time stochastic logic (CSL). For…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-19 Lei Song , Lijun Zhang , Jens Chr. Godskesen

We present a comprehensive study of the behavioral theory of an untyped $\lambda$-calculus extended with the delimited-control operators shift and reset. To that end, we define a contextual equivalence for this calculus, that we then aim to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dariusz Biernacki , Sergueï Lenglet , Piotr Polesiuk

In standard process algebra, parallel components do not share a common state and communicate through synchronisation. The advantage of this type of communication is that it facilitates compositional reasoning. For modelling and analysing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Mark Bouwman , Bas Luttik , Wouter Schols , Tim A. C. Willemse

We present relaxed notions of simulation and bisimulation on Probabilistic Automata (PA), that allow some error epsilon. When epsilon is zero we retrieve the usual notions of bisimulation and simulation on PAs. We give logical…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Mathieu Tracol , Josée Desharnais , Abir Zhioua

There are two fundamentally different approaches to specifying and verifying properties of systems. The logical approach makes use of specifications given as formulae of temporal or modal logics and relies on efficient model checking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Nikola Beneš , Benoît Delahaye , Uli Fahrenberg , Jan Křetínský , Axel Legay

This note shows that split-2 bisimulation equivalence (also known as timed equivalence) affords a finite equational axiomatization over the process algebra obtained by adding an auxiliary operation proposed by Hennessy in 1981 to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Luca Aceto , Wan Fokkink , Anna Ingolfsdottir , Bas Luttik

In this paper we propose definitions of equivalence via stochastic bisimulation and of equivalence of stochastic external behavior for the class of discrete-time stochastic linear control systems with possibly degenerate normally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Giordano Pola , Costanzo Manes , Arjan J. van der Schaft , Maria Domenica Di Benedetto