2009/06/17 by J.A. Bergstra, Bergstra, J. A., C.A. Middelburg +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Formal Methods in Verification #Logic, programming, and type systems #Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0906.3083
This paper concerns instruction sequences that contain probabilistic instructions, i.e. instructions that are themselves probabilistic by nature. We propose several kinds of probabilistic instructions, provide an informal operational meaning for each of them, and discuss related work. On purpose, we refrain from providing an ad hoc formal meaning for the proposed kinds of instructions. We also discuss the approach of projection semantics, which was introduced in earlier work on instruction sequences, in the light of probabilistic instruction sequences.