Algorithmic probabilistic game semantics

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Kiefer;Andrzej S. Murawski;Joël Ouaknine;Björn Wachter;James Worrell

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD;Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, UK LE1 7RH;Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD;Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD;Dept of Computer Science, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD

  • Venue:
  • Formal Methods in System Design
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present a detailed account of a translation from probabilistic call-by-value programs with procedures to Rabin's probabilistic automata. The translation is fully abstract in that programs exhibit the same computational behaviour if and only if the corresponding automata are language-equivalent. Since probabilistic language equivalence is decidable, we can apply the translation to analyse the behaviour of probabilistic programs and protocols. We illustrate our approach on a number of case studies.