Certificates and Witnesses for Multi-objective Queries in Markov Decision Processes
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Abstract
Certifying verification algorithms not only return whether a given property holds or not, but also provide an accompanying independently checkable certificate and a corresponding witness. The certificate can be used to easily validate the correctness of the result and the witness provides useful diagnostic information, e.g. for debugging purposes. Thus, certificates and witnesses substantially increase the trustworthiness and understandability of the verification process. In this work, we consider certificates and witnesses for multi-objective reachability-invariant and mean-payoff queries in Markov decision processes, that is conjunctions or disjunctions either of reachability and invariant or mean-payoff predicates, both universally and existentially quantified. Thereby, we generalize previous works on certificates and witnesses for single reachability and invariant constraints. To this end, we turn known linear programming techniques into certifying algorithms and show that witnesses in the form of schedulers and subsystems can be obtained. As a proof-of-concept, we report on implementations of certifying verification algorithms and experimental results.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Quantitative Evaluation of Systems and Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems |
Editors | Jane Hillston, Sadegh Soudjani, Masaki Waga |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer Nature Switzerland |
Pages | 1-18 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (electronic) | 978-3-031-68416-6 |
ISBN (print) | 978-3-031-68415-9 |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Volume | 14996 |
ISSN | 0302-9743 |
Conference
Title | 1st International Joint Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems & Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems |
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Abbreviated title | QEST+FORMATS 2024 |
Description | part of the CONFEST 2024 conference |
Duration | 9 - 13 September 2024 |
Website | |
Degree of recognition | International event |
Location | Best Western Plus Village Park Inn |
City | Calgary |
Country | Canada |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0002-5321-9343/work/166762363 |
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ORCID | /0000-0003-1724-2586/work/166763922 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-3437-0240/work/166765375 |
Keywords
Keywords
- Certificates, Markov cecision processes, multi-objective queries