Towards Automatic Measurement of Probabilistic Processes

  • Authors:
  • Lin Song;Yuxin Deng;Xiaojuan Cai

  • Affiliations:
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  • Venue:
  • QSIC '07 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a metric for finite processes in a probabilistic extension of CSP. The kernel of the metric cor- responds to trace equivalence and most of the operators in the process algebra is shown to satisfy non-expansiveness property with respect to this metric. We also provide an al- gorithm to calculate the distance between two processes to a prescribed discount factor in polynomial time. The al- gorithm has been implemented in a tool that helps us to measure processes automatically.