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We show that several basic discounted properties of probabilistic pushdown automata related both to terminating and non-terminating runs can be efficiently approximated up to an arbitrarily small given precision.
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Brázdil, T., Brožek, V., Holeček, J., Kučera, A. (2008). Discounted Properties of Probabilistic Pushdown Automata. In: Cervesato, I., Veith, H., Voronkov, A. (eds) Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning. LPAR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5330. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89439-1_17
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