@TECHREPORT{AIB200609, AUTHOR = {Tingting Han and Joost-Pieter Katoen}, TITLE = {Counterexamples in Probabilistic Model Checking}, NUMBER = {AIB200609}, INSTITUTION = {Software Modelling and Verification (i2), RWTH Aachen}, ADDRESS = {}, ABSTRACT = {This paper considers algorithms and complexity results for the generation of counterexamples in model checking of probabilistic until-formulae in discrete-time Markov chains (DTMCs). It is shown that finding the strongest evidence (i.e, the most probable path) that violates a (bounded) until-formula can be found in polynomial time using single-source (hop-constrained) shortest path algorithms. We also show that computing the smallest counterexample that is mostly deviating from the required probability bound can be found in a pseudo-polynomial time complexity by adopting a certain class of algorithms for the (hop-constrained) $k$ shortest paths problem.}, KEYWORDS = {}, NOTE = {}, MONTH = {August}, YEAR = {2006}, AUTHOR1_URL = {http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/i2/han/}, AUTHOR1_EMAIL = {tingting.han@cs.rwth-aachen.de}, AUTHOR2_URL = {http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/i2/katoen/}, AUTHOR2_EMAIL = {katoen@cs.rwth-aachen.de}, PAGES = {20}, FILE = {}, URL = {}, CONTACT = {tingting.han@cs.rwth-aachen.de} }