Robustness of a bisimulation-type faster-than preorder

TACS is an extension of CCS where upper time bounds for delays can be specified. Luettgen and Vogler defined three variants of bismulation-type faster-than relations and showed that they all three lead to the same preorder, demonstrating the robustness of their approach. In the present paper, the operational semantics of TACS is extended; it is shown that two of the variants still give the same preorder as before, underlining robustness. An explanation is given why this result fails for the third variant. It is also shown that another variant, which mixes old and new operational semantics, can lead to smaller relations that prove the same preorder.Comment: Express Worksho

Revisiting logical semantics for processes and their distances

Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Informática, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, leída el 2-02-2016Esta tesis se enmarca en el amplio campo de la teoría de la concurrencia. Más específicamente, nos centramos en el estudio de las relaciones de similitud entre procesos concurrentes. Comenzamos estudiando la bisimulación, considerada la más importante de estas relaciones, y vemos después cómo podemos extender nuestros resultados al resto de las semánticas de procesos estudiadas durante las últimas décadas. En particular, nuestra contribución a la comunidad científica, se centra en dos puntos principales: – El desarrollo de una caracterización lógica uniforme de las semánticas de procesos: proponemos un esquema lógico común (enmarcado en la conocida lógica modal de Hennessy-Milner) e incluimos las diferentes semánticas en este esquema, enfatizando las diferencias y similitudes entre ellas, que se presentan del modo más claro posible. – La presentación de una nueva noción de distancia, tanto entre procesos finitos como infinitos: la misma se diferencia de las anteriormente propuestas en su carácter global, que acumula las diferencias que aportan los distintos cómputos, en lugar de quedarnos con la máxima de ellas...This thesis can be included in the broad field of concurrency theory. More specifically, we focus on the study of the similarities between concurrent processes. We start from bisimulation, the main of these relations, and then we see how we can extend the obtained results to the rest of the semantics developed along the last years. In particular, our main contributions can be roughly described by the following two items: – The development of a unified logical characterization of process semantics: we propose a common logical scheme (within the framework of the well known Hennessy-Milner Logic) and we set the different semantics in this scheme by emphasizing, in the clearest possible way, the (dis)similarities between them. – We present a new notion of distance for both finite and infinite processes. This novel notion differs from the previously available ones in its global character: instead of taking the maximum disagreement between the two compared processes, it adds all the differences provided by their whole sets of computations...Depto. de Sistemas Informáticos y ComputaciónFac. de InformáticaTRUEunpu

Probabilistic Semantics: Metric and Logical Character\ua8ations for Nondeterministic Probabilistic Processes

In this thesis we focus on processes with nondeterminism and probability in the PTS model, and we propose novel techniques to study their semantics, in terms of both classic behavioral relations and the more recent behavioral metrics. Firstly, we propose a method for decomposing modal formulae in a probabilistic extension of the Hennessy-Milner logic. This decomposition method allows us to derive the compositional properties of probabilistic (bi)simulations. Then, we propose original notions of metrics measuring the disparities in the behavior of processes with respect to (decorated) trace and testing semantics. To capture the differences in the expressive power of the metrics we order them by the relation `makes processes further than'. Thus, we obtain the first spectrum of behavioral metrics on the PTS model. From this spectrum we derive an analogous one for the kernels of the metrics, ordered by the relation `makes strictly less identification than'. Finally, we introduce a novel technique for the logical characterization of both behavioral metrics and their kernels, based on the notions of mimicking formula and distance on formulae. This kind of characterization allows us to obtain the first example of a spectrum of distances on processes obtained directly from logics. Moreover, we show that the kernels of the metrics can be characterized by simply comparing the mimicking formulae of processes

Probabilistic Semantics: Metric and Logical Character¨ations for Nondeterministic Probabilistic Processes

In this thesis we focus on processes with nondeterminism and probability in the PTS model, and we propose novel techniques to study their semantics, in terms of both classic behavioral relations and the more recent behavioral metrics. Firstly, we propose a method for decomposing modal formulae in a probabilistic extension of the Hennessy-Milner logic. This decomposition method allows us to derive the compositional properties of probabilistic (bi)simulations. Then, we propose original notions of metrics measuring the disparities in the behavior of processes with respect to (decorated) trace and testing semantics. To capture the differences in the expressive power of the metrics we order them by the relation `makes processes further than'. Thus, we obtain the first spectrum of behavioral metrics on the PTS model. From this spectrum we derive an analogous one for the kernels of the metrics, ordered by the relation `makes strictly less identification than'. Finally, we introduce a novel technique for the logical characterization of both behavioral metrics and their kernels, based on the notions of mimicking formula and distance on formulae. This kind of characterization allows us to obtain the first example of a spectrum of distances on processes obtained directly from logics. Moreover, we show that the kernels of the metrics can be characterized by simply comparing the mimicking formulae of processes

Online Testing of Real-Time Systems Using UPPAAL: Status and Future Work

We present TUPPAAL --- a new tool for online black-box testing of real-time embedded systems from non-deterministic timed automata specifications. We describe a sound and complete randomized online testing algorithm, and describe how to implement it using symbolic state representation and manipulation techniques. We propose the notion of relativized timed input/output conformance as the formal implementation relation. A novelty of this relation and our testing algorithm is that they explicitly take environment assumptions into account, generate, execute and verify the result online using the UPPAAL on-the-fly model-checking tool engine. A medium size case study shows promising results in terms of error detection capability and computation performance