%T Bottom-up beats top-down hands down
%A Mirco Tribastone
%L eprints2555
%O 6th Workshop on Process Algebra and Stochastically Timed Activities (PASTA) held in Edindurgh (UK), July 2007
%B Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Process Algebra and Stochastically Timed Activities (PASTA)
%D 2007
%I AESOP
%C Edinburgh (UK)
%P 97-104
%X In PEPA, the calculation of the transitions enabled by a process accounts for a large part of the time for the state space exploration of the underlying Markov chain. Unlike other approaches based on recursion, we present a new technique that is iterative—it traverses the process’ binary tree from the sequential components at the leaves up to the root. Empirical results shows that this algorithm is faster than a similar implementation employing recursion in Java. Finally, a study on the user-perceived performance compares our algorithm with those of other existing tools
(ipc/Hydra and the PEPA Workbench).