Probabilistic Timed Automata with Clock-Dependent Probabilities

Probabilistic timed automata are classical timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions over edges. We introduce clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata, a variant of probabilistic timed automata in which transition probabilities can depend linearly on clock values. Clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata allow the modelling of a continuous relationship between time passage and the likelihood of system events. We show that the problem of deciding whether the maximum probability of reaching a certain location is above a threshold is undecidable for clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata. On the other hand, we show that the maximum and minimum probability of reaching a certain location in clock-dependent probabilistic timed automata can be approximated using a region-graph-based approach.

[1]  Eugene Asarin,et al.  Thin and Thick Timed Regular Languages , 2011, FORMATS.

[2]  Ernst Moritz Hahn,et al.  Model checking stochastic hybrid systems , 2012 .

[3]  Patricia Bouyer,et al.  On the optimal reachability problem in weighted timed automata and games , 2015, NCMA.

[4]  Marta Z. Kwiatkowska,et al.  Performance analysis of probabilistic timed automata using digital clocks , 2003, Formal Methods Syst. Des..

[5]  Marta Z. Kwiatkowska,et al.  PRISM 4.0: Verification of Probabilistic Real-Time Systems , 2011, CAV.

[6]  Marta Z. Kwiatkowska,et al.  A game-based abstraction-refinement framework for Markov decision processes , 2010, Formal Methods Syst. Des..

[7]  Kim G. Larsen,et al.  Optimal infinite scheduling for multi-priced timed automata , 2008, Formal Methods Syst. Des..

[8]  Alessandro Abate,et al.  On the Relationship Between Bisimulation and Trace Equivalence in an Approximate Probabilistic Context , 2017, FoSSaCS.

[9]  Marvin Minsky,et al.  Computation : finite and infinite machines , 2016 .

[10]  J. Kemeny,et al.  Denumerable Markov chains , 1969 .

[11]  Patricia Bouyer,et al.  Stochastic Timed Games Revisited , 2016, MFCS.

[12]  Joost-Pieter Katoen,et al.  Approximate Model Checking of Stochastic Hybrid Systems , 2010, Eur. J. Control.

[13]  Rajeev Alur,et al.  A Theory of Timed Automata , 1994, Theor. Comput. Sci..

[14]  Joost-Pieter Katoen,et al.  Robust PCTL model checking , 2012, HSCC '12.

[15]  Roberto Segala,et al.  Modeling and verification of randomized distributed real-time systems , 1996 .

[16]  Martin L. Puterman,et al.  Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming , 1994 .

[17]  Gethin Norman,et al.  Model checking for probabilistic timed automata , 2012, Formal Methods in System Design.

[18]  U. Rieder,et al.  Markov Decision Processes , 2010 .

[19]  R. Segala,et al.  Automatic Verification of Real-Time Systems with Discrete Probability Distributions , 1999, ARTS.