The probabilistic model checking landscape

JP Katoen - Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Randomization is a key element in sequential and distributed computing. Reasoning about
randomized algorithms is highly non-trivial. In the 1980s, this initiated first proof methods …

Skolem meets schanuel

Y Bilu, F Luca, J Nieuwveld, J Ouaknine… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The celebrated Skolem-Mahler-Lech Theorem states that the set of zeros of a linear
recurrence sequence is the union of a finite set and finitely many arithmetic progressions …

Research of an integrated decision model for production scheduling and maintenance planning with economic objective

Y Ao, H Zhang, C Wang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Semiconductor production has characteristics of reentry, uncertainty, and high level of
equipment integration, which are different with general machining processes. It involves …

On the skolem problem and the skolem conjecture

R Lipton, F Luca, J Nieuwveld, J Ouaknine… - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
It is a longstanding open problem whether there is an algorithm to decide the Skolem
Problem for linear recurrence sequences (LRS) over the integers, namely whether a given …

MDPs as distribution transformers: affine invariant synthesis for safety objectives

S Akshay, K Chatterjee, T Meggendorfer… - … Conference on Computer …, 2023 - Springer
Markov decision processes can be viewed as transformers of probability distributions. While
this view is useful from a practical standpoint to reason about trajectories of distributions …

On the decidability of reachability in linear time-invariant systems

N Fijalkow, J Ouaknine, A Pouly… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We consider the decidability of state-to-state reachability in linear time-invariant control
systems over discrete time. We analyse this problem with respect to the allowable control …

On Skolem-hardness and saturation points in Markov decision processes

J Piribauer, C Baier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11441, 2020 - arxiv.org
The Skolem problem and the related Positivity problem for linear recurrence sequences are
outstanding number-theoretic problems whose decidability has been open for many …

Distribution-based objectives for Markov decision processes

S Akshay, B Genest, N Vyas - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We consider distribution-based objectives for Markov Decision Processes (MDP). This class
of objectives gives rise to an interesting trade-off between full and partial information. As in …

On decidability of time-bounded reachability in CTMDPs

R Majumdar, M Salamati, S Soudjani - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05498, 2020 - arxiv.org
We consider the time-bounded reachability problem for continuous-time Markov decision
processes. We show that the problem is decidable subject to Schanuel's conjecture. Our …

The orbit problem for parametric linear dynamical systems

C Baier, F Funke, S Jantsch, T Karimov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study a parametric version of the Kannan-Lipton Orbit Problem for linear dynamical
systems. We show decidability in the case of one parameter and Skolem-hardness with two …