Switched probabilistic i/o automata

  • Authors:
  • Ling Cheung;Nancy Lynch;Roberto Segala;Frits Vaandrager

  • Affiliations:
  • Nijmegen Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy;Nijmegen Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICTAC'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A switched probabilistic I/O automaton is a special kind of probabilistic I/O automaton (PIOA), enriched with an explicit mechanism to exchange control with its environment. Every closed system of switched automata satisfies the key property that, in any reachable state, at most one component automaton is active. We define a trace-based semantics for switched PIOAs and prove it is compositional. We also propose switch extensions of an arbitrary PIOA and use these extensions to define a new trace-based semantics for PIOAs.