@incollection{eprints288, title = {Basic Observables for Probabilistic May Testing}, booktitle = {Fourth International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2007)}, year = {2007}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, pages = {189--200}, author = {Maria Carla Palmeri and Rocco De Nicola and Mieke Massink}, abstract = {The definition of behavioural preorders over process terms as the maximal (pre-)congruences induced by basic observables has proven to be a useful technique to define various preorders and equivalences in the non-probabilistic setting. In this paper, we consider probabilistic observables to define an observational semantics for a probabilistic process calculus. The resulting pre-congruence is proven to coincide with a probabilistic may preorder, which, in turn, corresponds to a natural probabilistic extension of the may testing preorder of De Nicola and Hennessy.}, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/288/} }