PRISM

This is PRISM (Probabilistic Symbolic Model Checker).

Installation

For detailed installation instructions, check the online manual at:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/manual/InstallingPRISM/Instructions

or see the local copy included in this distribution:

• manual/InstallingPRISM/Instructions.html

Very abbreviated instructions for installing/running PRISM are as follows:

For Windows binary distributions:

• to install, run prism-XXX-win-installer.exe
• to run, use Desktop/Start menu shortcuts or double-click bin\xprism.bat

For other binary distributions:

• to install, enter the PRISM directory and type ./install.sh
• to run, execute bin/xprism or bin/prism

For source code distributions:

• enter the PRISM directory and type cd prism then make
• to check the install, type make test
• to run, execute bin/xprism or bin/prism

If you have problems check the manual, especially the section "Common Problems And Questions".

Documentation

The best source of information about using PRISM is the online manual:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/manual/

You can also view the local copy included in this distribution:

• manual/index.html

For other PRISM-related information, see the website:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/

Licensing

PRISM is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING.txt. For more information, see:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

PRISM uses the CUDD (Colorado University Decision Diagram) library of Fabio Somenzi, which is freely available. For more information about this library, see:

http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio/CUDD/

PRISM also uses various other libraries (mainly to be found in the lib directory). For details of those, and for links to source where we distribute only binaries, see:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/other-downloads.php

Acknowledgements

PRISM was created and is still actively maintained by:

• Dave Parker (University of Birmingham)
• Gethin Norman (University of Glasgow)
• Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford)

Development of the tool is currently led from Birmingham by Dave Parker. Other current key developers are:

• Joachim Klein (formerly Technische Universität Dresden)

We gratefully acknowledge contributions to the PRISM code-base from various sources, including (in approximately reverse chronological order):

• Steffen Märcker: Fixes and improvements, especially in explicit engine
• Chris Novakovic: Build infrastructure and explicit engine improvements
• Ernst Moritz Hahn: Parametric model checking, fast adaptive uniformisation + various other features
• Frits Dannenberg: Fast adaptive uniformisation
• Vojtech Forejt: Various model checking code, including multi-objective + GUI enhancements
• Hongyang Qu: Multi-objective model checking
• Mateusz Ujma: Bug fixes and GUI improvements
• Christian von Essen: Symbolic/explicit-state model checking
• Vincent Nimal: Approximate (simulation-based) model checking techniques
• Mark Kattenbelt: Wide range of enhancements/additions, especially in the GUI
• Carlos Bederian (working with Pedro D'Argenio): LTL model checking for MDPs
• Gethin Norman: Precomputation algorithms, abstraction
• Alistair John Strachan: Port to 64-bit architectures
• Alistair John Strachan, Mike Arthur and Zak Cohen: Integration of JFreeChart into PRISM
• Charles Harley and Sebastian Vermehren: GUI enhancements
• Rashid Mehmood: Improvements to low-level data structures and numerical solution algorithms
• Stephen Gilmore: Support for the stochastic process algebra PEPA
• Paolo Ballarini & Kenneth Chan: Port to Mac OS X
• Andrew Hinton: Original versions of the GUI, Windows port and simulator
• Joachim Meyer-Kayser: Original implementation of the "Fox-Glynn" algorithm

For more details see:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/people.php

Contact

If you have problems or questions regarding PRISM, please use the help forum provided. See:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/support.php

Other comments and feedback about any aspect of PRISM are also very welcome. Please contact:

Dave Parker
(d.a.parker@cs.bham.ac.uk)
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
ENGLAND