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A framework for performance evaluation and functional verification in stochastic process algebras

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Hossein Hojjat,

MohammadReza Mousavi,

Marjan SirjaniAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 339 - 346

https://doi.org/10.1145/1363686.1363775

Published: 16 March 2008 Publication History

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Despite its relatively short history, a wealth of formalisms exist for algebraic specification of stochastic systems. The goal of this paper is to give such formalisms a unifying framework for performance evaluation and functional verification. To this end, we propose an approach enabling a provably sound transformation from some existing stochastic process algebras, e.g., PEPA and MTIPP, to a generic form in the mCRL2 language. This way, we resolve the semantic differences among different stochastic process algebras themselves, on one hand, and between stochastic process algebras and classic ones, such as mCRL2, on the other hand. From the generic form, one can generate a state space and perform various functional and performance-related analyses, as we illustrate in this paper.

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DOI:10.1145/1363686

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Nicola RLatella DLoreti MMassink M(2013)A uniform definition of stochastic process calculiACM Computing Surveys10.1145/2522968.252297346:1(1-35)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2522968.2522973
Ghassemi FFokkink WMovaghar A(2010)Equational Reasoning on Mobile Ad Hoc NetworksFundamenta Informaticae10.5555/2010420.2010422105:4(375-415)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2010420.2010422

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