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Discounted Computation Tree Logic is a logic that measures utility (as a real value in the interval [0,1]) instead of discrete truth (only 0 or 1). It is able to express properties that give more weight to the near future than to the far future. This article extends earlier work on DCTL with time, to continuous-time Markov chains and continuous-time Markov decision processes. It presents model checking algorithms for the two possible semantics of DCTL.
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Jansen, D.N. (2013). More or Less True DCTL for Continuous-Time MDPs. In: Braberman, V., Fribourg, L. (eds) Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems. FORMATS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8053. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40229-6_10
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