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Generalized Bisimulation Metrics

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The bisimilarity pseudometric based on the Kantorovich lifting is one of the most popular metrics for probabilistic processes proposed in the literature. However, its application in verification is limited to linear properties. We propose a generalization of this metric which allows to deal with a wider class of properties, such as those used in security and privacy. More precisely, we propose a family of metrics, parametrized on a notion of distance which depends on the property we want to verify. Furthermore, we show that the members of this family still characterize bisimilarity in terms of their kernel, and provide a bound on the corresponding metrics on traces. Finally, we study the case of a metric corresponding to differential privacy. We show that in this case it is possible to have a dual form, easier to compute, and we prove that the typical constructs of process algebra are non-expansive with respect to this metrics, thus paving the way to a modular approach to verification.

This work has been partially supported by the project ANR-12-IS02-001 PACE, the project ANR-11-IS02-0002 LOCALI, the INRIA Equipe Associée PRINCESS, the INRIA Large Scale Initiative CAPPRIS, and the EU grant 295261 MEALS.

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  1. CNRS, France

    Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis

  2. LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France

    Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Catuscia Palamidessi & Lili Xu

  3. VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Daniel Gebler

  4. INRIA, France

    Catuscia Palamidessi

  5. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science, China

    Lili Xu

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Via Trieste, 63, 35121, Padova, Italy

    Paolo Baldan

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria, 113, 00198, Rome, Italy

    Daniele Gorla

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Chatzikokolakis, K., Gebler, D., Palamidessi, C., Xu, L. (2014). Generalized Bisimulation Metrics. In: Baldan, P., Gorla, D. (eds) CONCUR 2014 – Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8704. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44584-6_4

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