relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/271/
title: Uniform Labeled Transition Systems for Nondeterministic, Probabilistic, and Stochastic Processes
creator: Bernardo, Marco
creator: De Nicola, Rocco
creator: Loreti, Michele
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
description: Rate transition systems (RTS) are a special kind of transition systems introduced for defining the stochastic behavior of processes and for associating continuous-time Markov chains with process terms. The transition relation assigns to each process, for each action, the set of possible futures paired with a measure indicating the rates at which they are reached. RTS have been shown to be a uniform model for providing an operational semantics to many stochastic process algebras. In this paper, we define Uniform Labeled TRAnsition Systems (ULTraS) as a generalization of RTS that can be exploited to uniformly describe also nondeterministic and probabilistic variants of process algebras. We then present a general notion of behavioral relation for ULTraS that can be instantiated to capture bisimulation and trace equivalences for fully nondeterministic, fully probabilistic, and fully stochastic processes.  
publisher: Springer
contributor: Wirsing, Martin
contributor: Hofmann, Martin
contributor: Rauschmayer, Axel
date: 2010
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Bernardo, Marco and De Nicola, Rocco and Loreti, Michele  Uniform Labeled Transition Systems for Nondeterministic, Probabilistic, and Stochastic Processes.   In:  Trustworthly Global Computing (TGC 2010).   Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6084 .  Springer, pp. 35-56.  ISBN 978-3-642-15639-7      (2010)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15640-3_3
relation: 10.1007/978-3-642-15640-3_3