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Probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) are a standard operational model for programming languages involving discrete random choices and recursive procedures. Temporal properties are useful for specifying the chronological order of events…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Tobias Winkler , Christina Gehnen , Joost-Pieter Katoen

In this communication, we resolve a longstanding open question in the probabilistic verification of infinite-state systems. We show that model checking {\it stateless probabilistic pushdown systems (pBPA)} against {\it probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Deren Lin , Tianrong Lin

We present POPACheck, the first model checking tool for probabilistic Pushdown Automata (pPDA) supporting temporal logic specifications. POPACheck provides a user-friendly probabilistic modeling language with recursion that automatically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Francesco Pontiggia , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

This paper studies the problem of model-checking of probabilistic automaton and probabilistic one-counter automata against probabilistic branching-time temporal logics (PCTL and PCTL$^*$). We show that it is undecidable for these problems.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-19 T. Lin

Probabilistic timed automata (PTAs) are timed automata (TAs) extended with discrete probability distributions.They serve as a mathematical model for a wide range of applications that involve both stochastic and timed behaviours. In this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Hongfei Fu , Yi Li , Jianlin Li , Lijun Zhang

In this paper, we define the notion of {\em probabilistic $\omega$-pushdown automaton} and study its model-checking problem against the logic of $\omega$-probabilistic computational tree logic ($\omega$-PCTL) and its bounded version from a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Deren Lin , Tianrong Lin

Probabilistic timed automata are an extension of timed automata with discrete probability distributions. We consider model-checking algorithms for the subclasses of probabilistic timed automata which have one or two clocks. Firstly, we show…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Marcin Jurdzinski , Francois Laroussinie , Jeremy Sproston

Probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) are a standard model for discrete probabilistic programs with procedures and recursion. In pPDA, many quantitative properties are characterized as least fixpoints of polynomial equation systems. In…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Tobias Winkler , Joost-Pieter Katoen

We study the bisimilarity problem for probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) and subclasses thereof. Our definition of pPDA allows both probabilistic and non-deterministic branching, generalising the classical notion of pushdown automata…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Vojtech Forejt , Petr Jancar , Stefan Kiefer , James Worrell

Probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) are a natural operational model for a variety of recursive discrete stochastic processes. In this paper, we study certificates - succinct and easily verifiable proofs - for upper and lower bounds on…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Tobias Winkler , Joost-Pieter Katoen

In this paper, we study the problem of model-checking quantum pushdown systems from a computational complexity point of view. We arrive at the following equally important, interesting new results: We first extend the notions of the {\it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Deren Lin , Tianrong Lin

Design and control of autonomous systems that operate in uncertain or adversarial environments can be facilitated by formal modelling and analysis. Probabilistic model checking is a technique to automatically verify, for a given temporal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker

We address the problem of model checking context-free specifications for probabilistic pushdown automata, which has relevant applications in the verification of recursive probabilistic programs. Operator Precedence Languages (OPLs) are an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Francesco Pontiggia , Ezio Bartocci , Michele Chiari

We study the bisimilarity problem for probabilistic pushdown automata (pPDA) and subclasses thereof. Our definition of pPDA allows both probabilistic and non-deterministic branching, generalising the classical notion of pushdown automata…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Vojtěch Forejt , Petr Jančar , Stefan Kiefer , James Worrell

We study decidability of verification problems for timed automata extended with unbounded discrete data structures. More detailed, we extend timed automata with a pushdown stack. In this way, we obtain a strong model that may for instance…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Karin Quaas

A large number of different model checking approaches has been proposed during the last decade. The different approaches are applicable to different model types including untimed, timed, probabilistic and stochastic models. This paper…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter Buchholz , Peter Kemper

We define a formal framework for reasoning about linear-time properties of quantum systems in which quantum automata are employed in the modeling of systems and certain closed subspaces of state (Hilbert) spaces are used as the atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Mingsheng Ying , Yangjia Li , Nengkun Yu , Yuan Feng

In this paper we investigate the applicability of standard model checking approaches to verifying properties in probabilistic programming. As the operational model for a standard probabilistic program is a potentially infinite parametric…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Nils Jansen , Christian Dehnert , Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Lukas Westhofen

Probabilistic model checking is a technique for formal automated reasoning about software or hardware systems that operate in the context of uncertainty or stochasticity. It builds upon ideas and techniques from a diverse range of fields,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 David Parker

Probabilistic model checking can provide formal guarantees on the behavior of stochastic models relating to a wide range of quantitative properties, such as runtime, energy consumption or cost. But decision making is typically with respect…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ingy Elsayed-Aly , David Parker , Lu Feng
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