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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
Imperial College London
PCTL model checking of Markov chains: Truth and falsity as winning strategies in games
<11>This paper is a considerably extended journal version of a paper by the same authors, which was shortlisted for the best paper award of the international conference QEST 2008. Both papers rigorously develop Hintikka games for the important probabilistic, temporal logic PCTL and Markov chains in order to get a correspondence between winning strategies in games and truth in PCTL model checks. A significant foundational contribution of this work is the invention of these games, which generalize qualitative games known from first-order logic to probabilistic games. This work also laid the foundations for recent research on p-Automata.