Title
Gsos For Non-Deterministic Processes With Quantitative Aspects
Abstract
Recently, some general frameworks have been proposed as unifying theories for processes combining non-determinism with quantitative aspects (such as probabilistic or stochastically timed executions), aiming to provide general results and tools. This paper provides two contributions in this respect. First, we present a general GSOS specification format (and a corresponding notion of bisimulation) for non-deterministic processes with quantitative aspects. These specifications define labelled transition systems according to the ULTraS model, an extension of the usual LTSs where the transition relation associates any source state and transition label with state reachability weight functions (like, e.g., probability distributions). This format, hence called Weight Function SOS (WFSOS), covers many known systems and their bisimulations (e.g. PEPA, TIPP, PCSP) and GSOS formats (e.g. GSOS, Weighted GSOS, Segala-GSOS, among others).The second contribution is a characterization of these systems as coalgebras of a class of functors, parametric on the weight structure. This result allows us to prove soundness of the WFSOS specification format, and that bisimilarities induced by these specifications are always congruences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.4204/EPTCS.154.2
ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Field
DocType
Issue
Discrete mathematics,Weight function,Algebra,Reachability,Functor,Probability distribution,Parametric statistics,Bisimulation,Soundness,Probabilistic logic,Mathematics
Journal
154
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2075-2180
9
0.48
References 
Authors
23
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marino Miculan150243.24
Marco Peressotti290.48