Aiguo Xie
ABSTRACT
This paper presents an efficient method for state classification of finite state Markov chains using BDD-based symbolic techniques. The method exploits the fundamental properties of a Markov chain and classifies the state space by iteratively applying reachability analysis. We compare our method with the current state-of-the-art technique which requires the computation of the transitive closure of the transition relation of a Markov chain. Experiments in over a dozen synchronous and asynchronous systems demonstrate that our method dramatically reduces the CPU time needed, and solves much larger problems because of reduced memory requiremen ts.
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- Efficient state classification of finite state Markov chains
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