Trace and Testing Metrics on Nondeterministic Probabilistic Processes

@article{Castiglioni2018TraceAT,
  title={Trace and Testing Metrics on Nondeterministic Probabilistic Processes},
  author={Valentina Castiglioni},
  journal={CoRR},
  year={2018},
  volume={abs/1808.08649},
  pages={19-36}
}
The combination of nondeterminism and probability in concurrent systems lead to the development of several interpretations of process behavior. If we restrict our attention to linear properties only, we can identify three main approaches to trace and testing semantics: the trace distributions, the trace-by-trace and the extremal probabilities approaches. In this paper, we propose novel notions of behavioral metrics that are based on the three classic approaches above, and that can be used to… 
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