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Compositionality for Probabilistic Automata

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We establish that on the domain of probabilistic automata, the trace distribution preorder coincides with the simulation preorder.

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Lynch, N., Segala, R., Vaandrager, F. (2003). Compositionality for Probabilistic Automata. In: Amadio, R., Lugiez, D. (eds) CONCUR 2003 - Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2761. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45187-7_14

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