High-Level counterexamples for probabilistic automata

  • Authors:
  • Ralf Wimmer;Nils Jansen;Andreas Vorpahl;Erika Ábrahám;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Bernd Becker

  • Affiliations:
  • Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany;RWTH Aachen University, Germany;RWTH Aachen University, Germany;RWTH Aachen University, Germany;RWTH Aachen University, Germany;Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • QEST'13 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Providing compact and understandable counterexamples for violated system properties is an essential task in model checking. Existing works on counterexamples for probabilistic systems so far computed either a large set of system runs or a subset of the system's states, both of which are of limited use in manual debugging. Many probabilistic systems are described in a guarded command language like the one used by the popular model checker PRISM. In this paper we describe how a minimal subset of the commands can be identified which together already make the system erroneous. We additionally show how the selected commands can be further simplified to obtain a well-understandable counterexample.