Title
Probabilistic Mobile Ambients
Abstract
The calculus of Mobile Ambients has been introduced for expressing mobility and mobile computation. In this paper we present a probabilistic version of Mobile Ambients by augmenting the syntax of the original Ambient Calculus with a (guarded) probabilistic choice operator. To allow for the representation of both the probabilistic behaviour introduced through the new probabilistic choice operator and the nondeterminism present in the original Ambient Calculus we use probabilistic automata as the underpinning semantic model. The Ambient logic is a logic for Mobile Ambients that contains a novel treatment of both locations and hidden names. For specifying properties of Probabilistic Mobile Ambients, we extend this logic to specify probabilistic behaviour. In addition, to show the utility of our approach we present an example of a virus infecting a network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.tcs.2008.12.058
Theor. Comput. Sci.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Ambient logic,Mobile Ambients,probabilistic choice operator,nondeterminism present,original Ambient,Probabilistic verification,Probabilistic Mobile Ambients,probabilistic version,probabilistic automaton,probabilistic behaviour,Mobile ambients,new probabilistic choice operator
Journal
410
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12-13
Theoretical Computer Science
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
28
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska16118322.21
Gethin Norman24163193.68
David Parker34018184.00
Maria Grazia Vigliotti41069.37