PRISM News
August 2024:
Up to two postdoc positions are available now on the
FUN2MODEL project.
Applications close on 12th September 2024.
See
here
for more details.
May 2024:
A postdoc position is available now at Oxford on
the
FAIR project.
Applications close on 22nd May 2024. Follow
this link for more details.
November 2023:
PRISM-games 3.2 is now
available,
including symbolic model checking of turn-based stochastic games, correlated/fair equilibria and more.
Further information
here.
October 2023:
A postdoc position is available now at Oxford on the
FAIR project.
Applications close on 28th November 2023.
See
here
for more details.
October 2023:
Two postdoc positions are available now on the
FUN2MODEL project.
Applications close on 6th November 2023.
See
here
for more details.
July 2023:
PRISM 4.8 is now
available,
including uncertain models (IMDPs, IDTMCs)
and improved strategy generation.
More information
here.
January 2022:
We are looking for 2 motivated Research Associates to play key roles on the
FUN2MODEL project.
Applications close on 7th February.
See
here
for more details.
September 2021:
PRISM is 20 years old this month!
It's first official release was in
2001.
Thanks to all those have
used it and who have helped
develop it over the years.
March 2021:
PRISM 4.7 is now
available,
including support for POMDPs, improved accuracy reporting
and
more.
February 2021:
We are looking for a senior researcher to play a key role on the
FUN2MODEL project. Applications close on 12th March, with interviews expected to be held from 29th March 2020 onwards.
See
here
for more details.
January 2021:
There are now
over 400 papers by external research teams using or building on PRISM. Thanks for your support!
November 2020:
Dave Parker
is giving a keynote at
iFM 2020
on "Verification with Stochastic Games: Advances and Challenges".
September 2020:
Marta Kwiatkowska
is giving a keynote at
KR 2020
on "Probabilistic model checking for strategic equilibria-based decision making".
April 2020:
PRISM 4.6 is now
available,
including a wide range of updates and fixes for users and developers.
More information
here.
March 2020:
We are looking for a research associate to work on probabilistic reasoning for multi-agent systems on the
FUN2MODEL project. Applications close on 15th April, with interviews expect in the week of 20th April 2020. See
here for more details.
February 2020:
We are looking for a senior researcher to play a key role on the
FUN2MODEL project. Applications close on 4th March, with interviews to be held on 11th March 2020.
See
here
for more details.
January 2020:
PRISM-games 3.0 is now
available as a beta release,
providing concurrent stochastic games,
equilibria, real-time models
and many new
examples.
September 2019:
Senior researcher position and studentship are available at Oxford on the forthcoming
FUN2MODEL project project. Applications close 30th October and 28th October respectively, and interviews will be on 8th November 2019.
See
here and
here
for more details.
June 2019:
Three postdoctoral positions are now available at Oxford on the forthcoming
FUN2MODEL project. Applications close 8 July 2019.
See
here,
here and
here
for more details.
June 2019:
Two fully funded ERC Doctoral Studentships are now available at Oxford on the forthcoming
FUN2MODEL project. Applications close 8 July 2019. See
here for more details.
May 2019:
PRISM-games 2.1 is now
available,
providing simpler installation/compilation,
updates from PRISM 4.5 and more.
More information
here.
April 2019:
PRISM 4.5 is now
available,
including a wide range of updates and fixes for users and developers.
More information
here.
March 2019:
Marta Kwiatkowska has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant titled
"FUN2MODEL: From FUNction-based TO MOdel-based automated probabilistic reasoning for DEep Learning"", which aims to make advances towards provably robust 'strong' Artificial Intelligence. More details
here.
January 2019:
PRISM just competed in
QComp 2019: the inaugural "Comparison of Tools for the Analysis of Quantitative Formal Models"". See the
report to appear at TACAS'19 as part of
Toolympics.
July 2017:
PRISM 4.4 is now
available,
including interval iteration, topological iteration, new reward operators,
CTL/LTL model checking and
much more.
September 2016:
A 2-3 year postdoc position is available now at Birmingham,
working with
Dave Parker
on verification of probabilistic programming languages.
Details
here.
July 2016:
Marta Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman and Dave Parker have been given the
2016 HVC award
for "the invention, development and maintenance of the PRISM probabilistic model checker".
For more details, see
here.
July 2016:
A 3-year postdoc and a PhD position are available now at Birmingham,
working with
Dave Parker
on a new project under the DARPA-funded
BRASS program.
This will be advertised shortly. Please
contact him directly for details.
February 2016:
We are delighted to announce that PRISM has again been selected to participate in
Google Summer of Code.
Contribute to PRISM and get paid for it!
More details
here
and a news item
here.
November 2015:
We are pleased to report that PRISM has now been
downloaded more than 50,000 times.
Thanks for your support!
July 2015:
A beta release of PRISM version 4.3 is now
available.
New features include external LTL-to-automata converters
and various new model checking algorithms.
Details
here.
June 2015:
PRISM now supports the
HOA (Hanoi Omega Automata) format.
This allows external LTL-to-automaton converters to be used.
More details in this
CAV'15 paper.
February 2015:
Three postdoctoral positions
available to work on the
5-year Programme Grant "Mobile Robotics: Enabling a Pervasive Technology of the Future",
held by Paul Newman and Ingmar Posner (Oxford's Engineering Science) and
Niki Trigoni and
Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford's Computer Science). More details
here.
November 2014:
Marta Kwiatkowska
has been awarded an honorary doctorate from KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
More details
here.
August 2014:
Here is a
new report, published by
the
LMS
and the
Smith Institute,
giving an accessible introduction to quantitative verification.
July 2014:
Two PRISM-related postdoctoral positions are now available at Birmingham
on the
HIERATIC project. See
the
advert.
The posts run until 30 Sep 2015.
Applications close 17 Aug 2014.
July 2014:
Dave Parker will give a session on "Probabilistic real-time systems" at the
MOVEP'14 summer-school on 7 July. See
here for resources.
May 2014:
A beta release of PRISM version 4.2 is now
available.
New features include featuring parametric model checking, fast adaptive uniformisation
and
more.
February 2014:
We are delighted to announce that PRISM has again been selected to participate in
Google Summer of Code.
Contribute to PRISM and get paid for it!
More details
here
and a news item
here.
November 2013:
A new
development version of PRISM
is now available, featuring parametric model checking,
fast adaptive uniformisation and more.
September 2013:
See the upcoming
tutorial and keynote at
ATVA'13 by Marta Kwiatkowska on probabilistic model checking, strategy synthesis and PRISM.
August 2013:
Two more postdoctoral positions are available in automated verification and synthesis on the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
VERIWARE. Candidates with prior experience of applications to biology are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications close 30 Sep 2013. See
here for more details.
Jun 2013:
A fully funded
PhD studentship
is now available at Birmingham
on the topic "Quantitative Verification of Complex Systems".
See
here for more details.
Jun 2013:
Congratulations to Alessandro Bruni and Proteek Roy,
who have been selected to work on PRISM
as part of
GSoC 2013,
and also to Jan Gorzny, who will work on PRISM as part of a
JPF GSoC project.
May 2013:
Two postdoctoral positions are now available in automated verification and synthesis on the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
VERIWARE. Applications close on 31st May 2013. See
here for more details.
April 2013:
We are delighted to announce that PRISM has been selected to participate in
the 2013
Google Summer of Code.
Contribute to PRISM and get paid for it!
More details
here
and
here.
March 2013:
PRISM-games an extension of PRISM
for probabilistic model checking of
stochastic multi-player games
will be presented at TACAS'13 this week.
Read the
tool paper
or visit the
website for more information.
October 2012:
A postdoctoral position is now available at Birmingham
on the new
HIERATIC project. See
the
advert,
the
particulars
and apply
here.
Applications close 22 Oct 2012.
September 2012:
Nature Scientific Reports publish a
paper
by Luca Cardelli & Attila Csikász-Nagy that uses PRISM to study cell cycle switch as a computing device.
See
here for details.
September 2012:
Marta Kwiatkowska will give this year's
Milner Lecture,
entitled "Sensing everywhere: on quantitative verification for ubiquitous computing",
at the University of Edinburgh on 25 Sep 2012.
July 2012:
A postdoctoral position is now available at Birmingham
on the forthcoming
HIERATIC project. See
the
advert,
the
particulars
and apply
here.
Applications close 14 Aug 2012.
February 2012:
PRISM has now been
downloaded more than 25,000 times.
Thanks for your support.
August 2010:
Marta Kwiatkowska will give a course on "Advances in Probabilistic Model Checking" at the
Marktoberdorf 2011 summer-school this month.
See
this page for resources.
July 2011:
To coincide with the recent
release
of
PRISM 4.0,
we are pleased to announce the new
PRISM benchmark suite,
for testing or evaluating
probabilistic model checking tools and techniques.
July 2011:
Congratulations to Shinji Kikuchi and Yasuhide Matsumoto from
Fujitsu,
who won the Best Paper award for their new
paper
applying PRISM to cloud computing systems.
May 2011:
The final beta release of PRISM 4.0,
which includes support for probabilistic timed automata (PTAs) and statistical model checking,
is available on the main
download page.
March 2011:
Interested in probabilistic model checking for MDPs?
A new
tutorial paper on the subject,
written for the
SFM-11:CONNECT summer-school,
is now available.
February 2011:
A fully funded PhD studentship is now available at Oxford
on the topic "Automated Verification Techniques for DNA Computing".
Applications close 28 Feb 2011. See
here for more details.
December 2010:
An early release of PRISM 4.0 is now available
as a
development version.
This includes support for
probabilistic timed automata (PTAs)
and statistical model checking.
November 2010:
A 1-year postdoc position is now available at Oxford on the
PRISMATIC project.
Applications close 8 Dec 2010. See
here for more details.
October 2010:
A fully funded PhD studentship is now available at Oxford
on the new
VERIWARE project. Applications close 15 Nov 2010. See
here for more details.
September 2010:
US R&D company
SIFT
is hiring researchers in probabilistic verification.
See
here for details.
July 2010:
Marta Kwiatkowska and Dave Parker will give a 5-part
course on "Probabilistic Model Checking" at the
ESSLLI'10
summer-school in Copenhagen next month.
June 2010:
Interested in applying PRISM to systems biology?
This new
book chapter in "Symbolic Systems Biology: Theory and Methods"
provides a tutorial and exercises on the subject.
April 2010:
A 2-year postdoc position is now available at Oxford on the
Predictable Software Systems project.
Applications close 28 May 2010. See
here for more details.
March 2010:
Two postdoctoral positions are now available at Oxford
on the forthcoming
VERIWARE project. Applications close 7 May 2010. See
here for more details.
March 2010:
Two fully funded PhD studentships are now available at Oxford
on the forthcoming
VERIWARE project. Applications close 4 May 2010. See
here for more details.
May 2009:
A beta release of PRISM version 3.3 is now
available.
New features include LTL model checking, better error reporting, an extended property language and
much more.
December 2008:
A new
development version of PRISM is now available,
with many new features and improvements.
Full details
here.
November 2008:
Two research positions are now available at Oxford,
working on the CONNECT-IP project:
one Research Assistant (Grade 7) and one Student Researcher.
Applications close 5 January 2009. See
here and
here for more details.
March 2008:
PRISM has now been
downloaded more than 10,000 times.
Thanks for your support.
February 2008:
A beta version of the next PRISM release (version 3.2) is now
available.
See
here for details.
October 2007:
A new
development version of PRISM is now available.
Changes since the last development release include a new graph plotting engine,
improvements to labels/formula, and a (slight) redesign to match the new web site.
September 2007:
A
postdoctoral position is now available at Oxford
on the forthcoming Predictable Software Systems project. Applications close 18 October. See
here for more details.
July 2007:
The PRISM team have moved to
Oxford University.
Concurrently, we have re-launched the PRISM web site,
with a new design and a new
URL.
June 2007:
New
development versions of PRISM are now being made available again.
Recent new functionality includes: an SBML-to-PRISM translator, support for 64-bit architectures and an improved simulator GUI.
May 2007:
A new
FAQ section has been added to the PRISM manual.
Comments or requests for topics to be covered are welcome.
May 2007:
A new symmetry reduction tool for PRISM called
GRIP,
developed at the University of Glasgow,
is now available.
April 2007:
The PRISM web site now includes slides for an 11-part
lecture course
introducing probabilistic model checking and PRISM.
This material formed the basis of the recent 15-hour course given at the
BISS 2007 school.
April 2007:
Version 3.1.1 of PRISM has now been
released,
including a few small but important bug fixes
(precise details
here).
November 2006:
A beta release of version 3.1 of PRISM is now
available.
New features include a Windows installer, multiple reward structures and command-line generation of random paths
(more details
here).
July 2006:
The PRISM manual is now
online,
making it considerably easier to navigate and search.
This will also allow us to update and improve the manual more efficiently.
This launch coincides with the full
release of version 3.0 of PRISM,
which was previously available as a beta release.
March 2006:
Version 3.0.beta1 of PRISM is
now available.
This major new release includes a simulator (providing approximate verification
techniques and a model debugging tool), costs and rewards,
support for Mac OS X, improved import/export functionality
and
much more.
March 2006:
A tool paper [
HKNP06] and demo
of the forthcoming new release of PRISM will be presented at the
TACAS'06 conference in Vienna this month.
January 2006:
We are in the process of migrating "
support" aspects of the PRISM project to SourceForge.
The project page is
here.
Please help out by posting queries in the
help forum
or filing a
bug report.
October 2005:
PRISM now runs on Mac OS X, as well as on Linux, Solaris and Windows.
To try it out, download a
development version of PRISM.
June 2005:
A PhD studentship is now available in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham
to work on probabilistic model checking and PRISM.
See
here
and
here
for more information.
January 2005:
Recent development versions of PRISM are now being made available from
here.
These versions add various new features,
including support for analysis of models which include information about costs and rewards.
September 2004:
PRISM now runs on Windows, as well as on Linux and Solaris.
This new functionality is available in version 2.1,
the current release of PRISM, which can be downloaded from
here.
April 2004:
The book Mathematical Techniques for Analyzing Concurrent and Probabilistic Systems
has now been published by
AMS. This includes six chapters of lecture notes covering
the background of probabilistic model checking and the PRISM tool.
See
here for more information.
March 2004:
Version 2.0 of PRISM is now
available.
The new release includes significant improvements to the PRISM modelling language and a completely new graphical user interface.
See
here for more precise details of what is included.
To download PRISM 2.0, click
here.
