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Abstract

This paper contains material for our tutorial presented at STRESS 2016. This includes an introduction to Statistical Model Checking algorithms and their rare event extensions, as well as an introduction to two well-known SMC tools: Plasma and Uppaal.

The research has received funding from the European FET projects SENSATION (http://www.sensation-project.eu/), Grant Agreement № 2888917 (DALI (http://www.ict-dali.eu/dali/)), and CASSTING (http://www.cassting-project.eu/), the Sino-Danish Basic Research Center IDEA4CPS (www.idea4cps), the Danish Innovation Center DiCyPS (www.dicyps.dk), as well as the ERC Advanced Grant LASSO and a CREATIVE Grant from the Brittany region.

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Notes

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    Please note that \(\delta \) and \(\alpha \) do not have the same meaning as for the qualitative question.

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    https://project.inria.fr/plasma-lab/documentation/tutorial/igrida-experimentation/.

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    https://code.google.com/p/matlabcontrol/.

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Larsen, K.G., Legay, A. (2016). On the Power of Statistical Model Checking. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Discussion, Dissemination, Applications. ISoLA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9953. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47169-3_62

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