Abstract—Bisimilarity is one of the most important relations for comparing the behaviour of formal systems in concurrency theory. Decision algorithms for bisimilarity in finite state systems are usually classified into two kinds: global algorithms are generally efficient but require to generate the whole state spaces in advance, and local algorithms combine the verification of a system’s behaviour with the generation of the system’s state space, which is often more effective to determine that one system fails to be related to another. Although local algorithms are well established in the classical concurrency theory, the study of local algorithms in probabilistic concurrency theory is not mature. In this paper we propose a polynomial time local algorithm for checking probabilistic bisimilarity. With mild modification, the algorithm can be easily adapted to decide probabilistic similarity with the same time complexity. Keywords-concurrency; probabilistic bisimilarity; local algorithm; probabilistic labelled transition systems; I.

Linear implication can represent state transitions, but real transition systems operate under temporal, stochastic or probabilistic constraints that are not directly representable in ordinary linear logic. We propose a general modal extension of intuitionistic linear logic where logical truth is indexed by constraints and hybrid connectives combine constraint reasoning with logical reasoning. The logic has a focused cut-free sequent calculus that can be used to internalize the rules of particular constrained transition systems; we illustrate this with an adequate encoding of the synchronous stochastic pi-calculus. We also present some preliminary experiments of direct encoding of biological systems in the logic. 1