PRISM-games

This is PRISM-games, an extension of the PRISM model checker for verification and strategy synthesis for stochastic multi-player games.

Installation

Up-to-date installation instructions can be found here:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/games/installation.php

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

For Windows binary distributions:

to install, run prism-XXX-win64-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 or etc/tests/run.sh
to run, execute bin/xprism or bin/prism

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

Documentation

Included in this release is a manual for the version of PRISM on which PRISM-games is based.

Documentation specifically for PRISM-games can be found here:

http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/games/

For other PRISM-related information, see the website:

https://www.prismmodelchecker.org/doc

Information for developers is kept here:

https://github.com/prismmodelchecker/prism/wiki

Licensing

PRISM-games 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:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/

PRISM-games also uses various other libraries (mainly to be found in the lib directory). For details of those, including licenses and links to downloads and source code, see:

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

Acknowledgements

PRISM was created and is still actively maintained by:

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

Development of the tool is currently led from Oxford by Dave Parker.

The following have made a wide range of contributions to PRISM covering many different aspects of the tool (in approximately reverse chronological order):

Steffen Märcker (Technische Universität Dresden)
Joachim Klein (formerly Technische Universität Dresden)
Vojtech Forejt (formerly University of Oxford)

The following have worked specifically worked on PRISM-games (in approximately reverse chronological order):

Gabriel Santos: concurrent stochastic games and equilibria
Clemens Wiltsche: multi-objective and compositional techniques
Mateusz Ujma: turn-based stochastic games
Aistis Simaitis: turn-based stochastic games

We also gratefully acknowledge contributions to the PRISM code-base from (in approximately reverse chronological order):

Max Kurze: Language parser code improvements
Ludwig Pauly: Reward import/export
Alberto Puggelli: First version of interval DTMC/MDP code
Xueyi Zou: Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs)
Chris Novakovic: Build infrastructure and explicit engine improvements
Clemens Wiltsche: Multi-objective and compositional synthesis for stochastic games
Ernst Moritz Hahn: Parametric model checking, fast adaptive uniformisation + various other features
Frits Dannenberg: Fast adaptive uniformisation
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:

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

Contact

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

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

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

Dave Parker
(david.parker@cs.ox.ac.uk)
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford
Oxford
OX1 3QG UK