Toward a Theory of Probabilistic Automata with Environments,
Abstract
The viewpoint is taken that every probabilistic automation is situated within a sequence of environments which affects the initial state distribution and the transition function. There exists a probabilistic automaton within a deterministic environment sequence (ADE) which defines an event which is not a PCE, yet in certain nontrivial cases the behavior of an ADE can be simulated by a probabilistic automaton. For probabilistic automata within random environment sequences there is a mean equivalent canonical representation which eliminates the randomness due to probabilistic transition. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA053986
Entities
People
- Edward Wegman
- Jerren Gould
Organizations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill