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Structural operational semantics for stochastic and weighted transition systems

Structural operational semantics for stochastic and weighted transition systems
Structural operational semantics for stochastic and weighted transition systems
We introduce weighted GSOS, a general syntactic framework to specify well-behaved transition systems where transitions are equipped with weights coming from a commutative monoid. We prove that weighted bisimilarity is a congruence on systems defined by weighted GSOS specifications. We illustrate the flexibility of the framework by instantiating it to handle some special cases, most notably that of stochastic transition systems. Through examples we provide weighted-GSOS definitions for common stochastic operators in the literature.
gsos, stochastic systems, rule formats, operational semantics
0890-5401
58-83
Klin, Bartek
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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Klin, Bartek
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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Klin, Bartek and Sassone, Vladimiro (2013) Structural operational semantics for stochastic and weighted transition systems. Information and Computation, 227, 58-83. (doi:10.1016/j.ic.2013.04.001).

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We introduce weighted GSOS, a general syntactic framework to specify well-behaved transition systems where transitions are equipped with weights coming from a commutative monoid. We prove that weighted bisimilarity is a congruence on systems defined by weighted GSOS specifications. We illustrate the flexibility of the framework by instantiating it to handle some special cases, most notably that of stochastic transition systems. Through examples we provide weighted-GSOS definitions for common stochastic operators in the literature.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 9 April 2013
Published date: June 2013
Keywords: gsos, stochastic systems, rule formats, operational semantics
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 335288
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/335288
ISSN: 0890-5401
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Date deposited: 10 Mar 2012 12:52
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Author: Bartek Klin
Author: Vladimiro Sassone

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