TY - JOUR
T1 - A logic of probability with decidable model checking
AU - Beauquier, Daniéle
AU - Rabinovich, Alexander
AU - Slissenko, Anatol
PY - 2006/8
Y1 - 2006/8
N2 - A predicate logic of probability, close to the logics of probability of Halpern et al., is introduced. Our main result concerns the following model-checking problem: deciding whether a given formula holds on the structure defined by a given finite probabilistic process. We show that this model-checking problem is decidable for a rather large subclass of formulas of a second-order monadic logic of probability. We discuss also the decidability of satisfiability and compare our logic of probability with the probabilistic temporal logic pCTL*.
AB - A predicate logic of probability, close to the logics of probability of Halpern et al., is introduced. Our main result concerns the following model-checking problem: deciding whether a given formula holds on the structure defined by a given finite probabilistic process. We show that this model-checking problem is decidable for a rather large subclass of formulas of a second-order monadic logic of probability. We discuss also the decidability of satisfiability and compare our logic of probability with the probabilistic temporal logic pCTL*.
KW - Decidability
KW - Finite Markov chain
KW - Model checking
KW - Predicate logic of probability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33747822842&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/logcom/exl004
DO - 10.1093/logcom/exl004
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AN - SCOPUS:33747822842
SN - 0955-792X
VL - 16
SP - 461
EP - 487
JO - Journal of Logic and Computation
JF - Journal of Logic and Computation
IS - 4
ER -