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We review Wilhelm’s work on WCET for hard real-time applications and also recent work on analysis of soft-real time systems using probabilistic methods. We then present Probabilistic Abstract Interpretation (PAI) as a quantitative variation of the classical approach; PAI aims to provide close approximations – this should be contrasted to the safe approximations studied in the standard setting. We discuss the relation between PAI and classical Abstract Interpretation as well as average case analysis.
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Di Pierro, A., Hankin, C., Wiklicky, H. (2007). Abstract Interpretation for Worst and Average Case Analysis. In: Reps, T., Sagiv, M., Bauer, J. (eds) Program Analysis and Compilation, Theory and Practice. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4444. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71322-7_8
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