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Labelled Markov Processes.
Title:
Labelled Markov Processes.
Author:
Panangaden, Prakash.
ISBN:
9781848162891
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (212 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Preliminary Remarks -- 1.2 Elementary Discrete Probability Theory -- 1.3 The Need for Measure Theory -- 1.4 The Laws of Large Numbers -- 1.5 Borel-Cantelli Lemmas -- 2. Measure Theory -- 2.1 Measurable Spaces -- 2.2 Measurable Functions -- 2.3 Metric Spaces and Properties of Measurable Functions -- 2.4 Measurable Spaces of Sequences -- 2.5 Measures -- 2.6 Lebesgue Measure -- 2.7 Nonmeasurable Sets -- 2.8 Exercises -- 3. Integration -- 3.1 The Definition of Integration -- 3.2 Properties of the Integral -- 3.3 Riemann Integrals -- 3.4 Multiple Integrals -- 3.5 Exercises -- 4. The Radon-Nikodym Theorem -- 4.1 Set Functions -- 4.2 Decomposition Theorems -- 4.3 Absolute Continuity -- 4.4 Exercises -- 5. A Category of Stochastic Relations -- 5.1 The Category SRel -- 5.2 Probability Monads -- 5.3 The Structure of SRel -- 5.3.1 Partially additive structure -- 5.4 Kozen Semantics and Duality -- 5.4.1 While loops in a probabilistic framework -- 5.5 Exercises -- 6. Probability Theory on Continuous Spaces -- 6.1 Probability Spaces -- 6.2 Random Variables -- 6.3 Conditional Probability -- 6.4 Regular Conditional Probability -- 6.5 Stochastic Processes and Markov Processes -- 7. Bisimulation for Labelled Markov Processes -- 7.1 Ordinary Bisimulation -- 7.2 Probabilistic Bisimulation for Discrete Systems -- 7.3 Two Examples of Continuous-State Processes -- 7.4 The De.nition of Labelled Markov Processes -- 7.5 Basic Facts About Analytic Spaces -- 7.6 Bisimulation for Labelled Markov Processes -- 7.7 A Logical Characterisation of Bisimulation -- 8. Metrics for Labelled Markov Processes -- 8.1 From Bisimulation to aMetric -- 8.2 A Real-Valued Logic on Labelled Markov Processes -- 8.3 Metrics on Processes -- 8.4 Metric Reasoning for Process Algebras -- 8.5 Perturbation -- 8.6 The AsymptoticMetric.

8.7 Behavioural Properties of the Metric -- 8.8 The Pseudometric as a Maximum Fixed Point -- 9. Approximating Labelled Markov Processes -- 9.1 An Explicit Approximation Construction -- 9.1.1 Finite-state approximation: .rst attempt -- 9.2 DealingWith Loops -- 9.3 Adapting the Approximation to Formulas -- 10. Approximating the Approximation -- 11. A Domain of Labelled Markov Processes -- 11.1 Background on Domain Theory -- 11.1.1 Basic de.nitions and results -- 11.1.2 Valuations and the probabilistic powerdomain -- 11.1.3 The Lawson topology -- 11.2 The Domain Proc -- 11.3 L as the Logic of Proc -- 11.4 Relating Proc and LMP -- 11.4.1 From Proc to labelled Markov processes -- 11.4.2 Embedding labelled Markov processes into Proc -- 12. Real-Time and Continuous Stochastic Logic -- 12.1 Background -- 12.2 Spaces of Paths in a CTMP -- 12.3 The Logic CSL -- 12.4 A General Technique for Relating Bisimulation and Logic -- 12.5 Bisimilarity and CSL -- 13. Related Work -- 13.1 Mathematical Foundations -- 13.2 Metrics -- 13.3 Nondeterminism -- 13.4 Testing -- 13.5 Weak Bisimulation -- 13.6 Approximation -- 13.7 Model Checking -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Labelled Markov processes are probabilistic versions of labelled transition systems with continuous state spaces. The book covers basic probability and measure theory on continuous state spaces and then develops the theory of LMPs.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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