{"title":"Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs","ec_funded":1,"status":"public","ddc":["000"],"month":"06","type":"conference","user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","has_accepted_license":"1","article_processing_charge":"No","file_date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:47:20Z","date_published":"2019-06-08T00:00:00Z","keyword":["Program Cost Analysis","Program Termination","Probabilistic Programs","Martingales"],"date_created":"2019-03-25T10:13:25Z","oa_version":"Submitted Version","related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"earlier_version","id":"5457","status":"public"},{"status":"public","id":"8934","relation":"dissertation_contains"}]},"quality_controlled":"1","scopus_import":"1","project":[{"_id":"25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"ICT15-003","name":"Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification"},{"_id":"25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"S11407","call_identifier":"FWF","name":"Game Theory"},{"_id":"25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"S 11407_N23","call_identifier":"FWF","name":"Rigorous Systems Engineering"},{"name":"Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications","call_identifier":"FP7","grant_number":"279307","_id":"2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425"},{"_id":"266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","name":"Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts"}],"abstract":[{"text":"We consider the problem of expected cost analysis over nondeterministic probabilistic programs,\r\nwhich aims at automated methods for analyzing the resource-usage of such programs.\r\nPrevious approaches for this problem could only handle nonnegative bounded costs.\r\nHowever, in many scenarios, such as queuing networks or analysis of cryptocurrency protocols,\r\nboth positive and negative costs are necessary and the costs are unbounded as well.\r\n\r\nIn this work, we present a sound and efficient approach to obtain polynomial bounds on the\r\nexpected accumulated cost of nondeterministic probabilistic programs.\r\nOur approach can handle (a) general positive and negative costs with bounded updates in\r\nvariables; and (b) nonnegative costs with general updates to variables.\r\nWe show that several natural examples which could not be\r\nhandled by previous approaches are captured in our framework.\r\n\r\nMoreover, our approach leads to an efficient polynomial-time algorithm, while no\r\nprevious approach for cost analysis of probabilistic programs could guarantee polynomial runtime.\r\nFinally, we show the effectiveness of our approach using experimental results on a variety of programs for which we efficiently synthesize tight resource-usage bounds.","lang":"eng"}],"citation":{"chicago":"Wang, Peixin, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Xudong Qin, and Wenjun Shi. “Cost Analysis of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.” In <i>PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation</i>, 204–20. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581\">https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581</a>.","ieee":"P. Wang, H. Fu, A. K. Goharshady, K. Chatterjee, X. Qin, and W. Shi, “Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs,” in <i>PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation</i>, Phoenix, AZ, United States, 2019, pp. 204–220.","apa":"Wang, P., Fu, H., Goharshady, A. K., Chatterjee, K., Qin, X., &#38; Shi, W. (2019). Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In <i>PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation</i> (pp. 204–220). Phoenix, AZ, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581\">https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581</a>","mla":"Wang, Peixin, et al. “Cost Analysis of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.” <i>PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation</i>, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 204–20, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581\">10.1145/3314221.3314581</a>.","ista":"Wang P, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Chatterjee K, Qin X, Shi W. 2019. Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 204–220.","short":"P. Wang, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, K. Chatterjee, X. Qin, W. Shi, in:, PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 204–220.","ama":"Wang P, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Chatterjee K, Qin X, Shi W. Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In: <i>PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation</i>. Association for Computing Machinery; 2019:204-220. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581\">10.1145/3314221.3314581</a>"},"author":[{"last_name":"Wang","full_name":"Wang, Peixin","first_name":"Peixin"},{"id":"3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Hongfei","last_name":"Fu","full_name":"Fu, Hongfei"},{"id":"391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0003-1702-6584","first_name":"Amir Kafshdar","last_name":"Goharshady","full_name":"Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar"},{"first_name":"Krishnendu","orcid":"0000-0002-4561-241X","id":"2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Chatterjee, Krishnendu","last_name":"Chatterjee"},{"first_name":"Xudong","last_name":"Qin","full_name":"Qin, Xudong"},{"first_name":"Wenjun","full_name":"Shi, Wenjun","last_name":"Shi"}],"isi":1,"department":[{"_id":"KrCh"}],"publication_status":"published","external_id":{"arxiv":["1902.04659"],"isi":["000523190300014"]},"day":"08","year":"2019","publisher":"Association for Computing Machinery","oa":1,"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"conference":{"location":"Phoenix, AZ, United States","start_date":"2019-06-22","name":"PLDI: Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation","end_date":"2019-06-26"},"date_updated":"2024-04-19T22:30:33Z","_id":"6175","publication":"PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation","doi":"10.1145/3314221.3314581","file":[{"date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:47:20Z","checksum":"703a5e9b8c8587f2a44085ffd9a4db64","creator":"akafshda","access_level":"open_access","file_name":"paper.pdf","file_id":"6176","relation":"main_file","file_size":4051066,"date_created":"2019-03-25T10:11:22Z","content_type":"application/pdf"}],"page":"204-220"}