Title
Using Statistical Model Checking for Measuring Systems.
Abstract
State spaces represent the way a system evolves through its different possible executions. Automatic verification techniques are used to check whether the system satisfies certain properties, expressed using automata or logic-based formalisms. This provides a Boolean indication of the system's fitness. It is sometimes desirable to obtain other indications, measuring e.g., duration, energy or probability. Certain measurements are inherently harder than others. This can be explained by appealing to the difference in complexity of checking CTL and LTL properties. While the former can be done in time linear in the size of the property, the latter is PSPACE in the size of the property; hence practical algorithms take exponential time. While the CTL-type of properties measure specifications that are based on adjacency of states (up to a fix-point calculation), LTL properties have the flavor of expecting some multiple complicated requirements from each execution sequence. In order to quickly measure LTL-style properties from a structure, we use a form of statistical model checking; we exploit the fact that LTL-style properties on a path behave like CTL-style properties on a structure. We then use CTL-based measuring on paths, and generalize the measurement results to the full structure using optimal Monte Carlo estimation techniques. To experimentally validate our framework, we present measurements for a flocking model of bird-like agents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-662-45231-8_16
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Adjacency list,Flocking (texture),Monte Carlo method,Computer science,Automaton,Algorithm,Linear temporal logic,PSPACE,Temporal logic,Rotation formalisms in three dimensions
Conference
8803
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
9
0.65
References 
Authors
18
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Radu Grosu1101197.48
Doron Peled23357273.18
C. R. Ramakrishnan31427107.75
Scott A. Smolka42959249.22
Scott D. Stoller5132089.10
Junxing Yang6225.36