Quantitative Analysis under Fairness Constraints

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Abstract

It is well-known that fairness assumptions can be crucial for verifying progress, reactivity or other liveness properties for interleaving models. This also applies to Markov decision processes as an operational model for concurrent probabilistic systems and the task to establish tight lower or upper probability bounds for events that are specified by liveness properties. In this paper, we study general notions of strong and weak fairness constraints for Markov decision processes, formalized in an action- or state-based setting. We present a polynomially time-bounded algorithm for the quantitative analysis of an MDP against $-automata specifications under fair worst- or best-case scenarios. Furthermore, we discuss the treatment of strong and weak fairness and process fairness constraints in the context of partial order reduction techniques for Markov decision processes that have been realized in the model checker LiQuor and rely on a variant of Peled's ample set method.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomated Technology for Verification and Analysis
EditorsZhiming Liu, Anders P. Ravn
Place of PublicationBerlin, Heidelberg
PublisherSpringer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Pages135-150
Number of pages16
ISBN (electronic)978-3-642-04761-9
ISBN (print)978-3-642-04760-2
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume5799
ISSN0302-9743

Conference

Title7th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
Abbreviated titleATVA 2009
Conference number
Duration14 - 16 October 2009
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
Location
CityMacao
CountryChina

External IDs

Scopus 71549171144
ORCID /0000-0002-5321-9343/work/205988093

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