1. Introduction
This page summarizes the results for the 2018 edition of the Model Checking Contest (MCC’2018). This page is divided in three sections:
- First, we list the qualified tools for the MCC'2018,
- Then, we provide some informations about the experimental conditions of the MCC'2018,
- Then, we present an access to details about results,
- Then, we provide the list of winners of the MCC'2018,
- Finally, we provide an attempt to evaluate tool reliability based on the comparison of the results provided in the contest.
IMPORTANT:all these documents can be reused in scientific material and papers but must respect the Creative Common licence CC-BY-NC-SA.
2. List of Qualified Tools in 2018
Ten tools where submitted this year. They all successfully went through a qualification process requiring about 1500 runs (each tool had to answer each examination for the first instance of each «known» model).
Data about these tools are summarized in the table below. For any tool, you can download the disk image that was provided with all its data. You may use these to reproduce measures locally and perform comparison with your own tool on the same benchmark. Please note that one tool (with two variants) was out of competition this year: this was agreed between the tool developer and the organizers and is part of an experiment with precomputed deep-learning.
IMPORTANT: all tool developers agreed to provide the original image disk embedding the tool they submitted his year (see links in the table below). You may operate these tools on your own. o do so, you need the second disk image (mounted by the other one) that contains all models for 2018 together with the produced formulas. This image is mounted with the default configuration, as well as in he default disk image provided in the tool submission kit (see here).
| Summary of the Participating Tools | ||||||
| Tool name | Supported Petri nets |
Representative Author | Origin | Type of execution | Link to the submitted disk image | Reported Techniques (all examinations) |
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| GreatSPN-Meddly | P/T and colored | Elvio Amparore | Univ. Torino (Italy) | Sequential Processing |  |
DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
| ITS-Tools | P/T and colored | Yann Therry-Mieg | Sorbonne Université | Collateral Processing | |
BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION LTSMIN PARTIAL_ORDER SAT_SMT STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
| ITS-Tools.L | P/T and colored | Yann Therry-Mieg | Sorbonne Université | Collateral Processing | |
BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION(0) LTSMIN PARTIAL_ORDER SAT_SMT STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
| LoLA | P/T and colored | Karsten Wolf & Torsten Liebke | Universität Rostock | Colateral Processing | |
EXPLICIT SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
| LTSMin | P/T | Jeroen Meijer | University of Twente | Parallel Processing | |
DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT USE_NUPN |
| MCC4MCC.full | P/T and colored | Alban Linard | Université de Genève | Collateral Processing or Sequential Processing | |
BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
| MCC4MCC.struct | P/T and colored | Alban Linard | Université de Genève | Collateral Processing or Sequential Processing | |
BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
| smart | P/T | Junad Babar & Andrew Miner | Iowa State University | Sequential Processing | |
DECISION_DIAGRAMS IMPLICIT RELATIONS |
| Tapaal | P/T and colored | Jiri Srba | Aalborg Universitet | Collateral Processing | |
CPN_APPROX CTL_CZERO EXPLICIT LP_APPROX QUERY_REDUCTION SAT_SMT SIPHON_TRAP STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL TRACE_ABSTRACTION_REFINEMENT UNFOLDING_TO_PT |
| TINA.tedd | P/T and colored | Bernard Berthomieu & Silvano Dal Zilio | LAAS/CNRS/Université de Toulouse | Sequential Processing | |
ABSTRACTIONS DECISION_DIAGRAMS STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
| Irma.full (out of competition) |
P/T and colored | Alban Linard | Université de Genève | Collateral Processing or Sequential Processing | |
BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
| Irma.struct (out of competition) |
P/T and colored | Alban Linard | Université de Genève | Collateral Processing or Sequential Processing | |
BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
The table below lists the techniques reported per examination (and for all the tool variants when applicable).
| Techniques Reported by the Participating Tools (per examination) | |||||
| Tool name | StateSpace | UpperBounds | Reachability | CTL | LTL |
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| GreatSPN-Meddly | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | — |
| ITS-Tools | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION LTSMIN PARTIAL_ORDER SAT_SMT STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT LTSMIN PARTIAL_ORDER SAT_SMT TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
| ITS-Tools.L | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION LTSMIN PARTIAL_ORDER SAT_SMT STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT LTSMIN PARTIAL_ORDER SAT_SMT TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
| LoLA | — | EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | EXPLICIT SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN |
| LTSMin | DECISION_DIAGRAMS USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS USE_NUPN | EXPLICIT USE_NUPN |
| MCC4MCC.full | DECISION_DIAGRAMS STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
| MCC4MCC.struct | DECISION_DIAGRAMS STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT SEQUENTIAL_PROCESSING STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
| smart | DECISION_DIAGRAMS IMPLICIT RELATIONS | DECISION_DIAGRAMS | — | — | — |
| Tapaal | EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION | EXPLICIT QUERY_REDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS | CPN_APPROX EXPLICIT LP_APPROX QUERY_REDUCTION SAT_SMT SIPHON_TRAP STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL TRACE_ABSTRACTION_REFINEMENT UNFOLDING_TO_PT | CPN_APPROX CTL_CZERO EXPLICIT LP_APPROX QUERY_REDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS TRACE_ABSTRACTION_REFINEMENT UNFOLDING_TO_PT | — |
| TINA.tedd | ABSTRACTIONS DECISION_DIAGRAMS STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | — | — | — | — |
| Irma.full | DECISION_DIAGRAMS STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT SEQUENTIAL_PROCESSING STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
| Irma.struct | DECISION_DIAGRAMS STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | BMC DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT INITIAL_STATE K_INDUCTION SAT_SMT STATE_COMPRESSION STRUCTURAL_REDUCTION STUBBORN_SETS SYMMETRIES TAUTOLOGY TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL UNFOLDING_TO_PT USE_NUPN | DECISION_DIAGRAMS EXPLICIT STATE_COMPRESSION STUBBORN_SETS TOPOLOGICAL USE_NUPN |
3. Experimental Conditions of the MCC'2018
Each tool was submitted to 8 523 executions in various conditions (947 model/instances and 9 examinations per model/instance) for which it could report: DNC (do not compete), CC (cannot compute) or the result of the query. These executions were handled by BenchKit, that was developed in the context of the MCC for massive testing of software. Then, from the raw data provided by BenchKit, some post-analysis scripts consolidated these and computed a ranking.
16 GB of memory were allocated to each virtual machine (both parallel and sequential tools) and a confinement of one hour was considered (execution aborted after one hour). So, a total of 102 276 runs (execution of one examination by the virtual machine) generated 29 GB of raw data (essentially log files and CSV of sampled data).
The table below shows some data about the involved machines and their contribution to the computation of these results. This year, we affected only physical cores to the virtual machines (discarding logical cores obtained from hyper-threading) so the balance between the various machine we used is quite different from he one of past years.
| Involved Machines and Execution of the Benchmarks | ||||||||
| bluewhale03 | bluewhale07 | Caserta | Ebro | Quadhexa-1 | Quadhexa-2 | Small | Total | |
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| Physical Cores | 20 @ 2.8GHz | 16 @ 3.2 GHz | 96 @ 2.20 GHz | 32 @ 2.7GHz | 24 @ 2.66GHz | 24 @ 2.66GHz | 16×12 @ 2.4GHz | — |
| Memory (GB) | 512 | 1024 | 2048 | 1024 | 144 | 128 | 12×64 | — |
| Used Cores (sequential tools) | 19, 19 VM in // |
15, 15 VM in // |
95, 95 VM in // |
31, 31 VM in // |
7, 7 VM in // |
7, 7 VM in // |
16×3, 16×3 VM in // |
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| Used Cores (parallel tools) | 16 (4 per VM), 4 VM in // |
12 (4 per VM), 3 VM in // |
92 (4 per VM), 23 VM in // |
28 (4 per VM), 7 VM in // |
20 (4 per VM), 5 VM in // |
20 (4 per VM), 5 VM in // |
16×8 (4 per VM), 16×20 VM in // |
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| Number of runs | 7 560 | 6 480 | 22 896 | 7 992 | 2 916 | 8 640 | 45 792 | 102 276 |
| Total CPU required | 127d, 20h, 32m, 8s | 88d, 19h, 33m, 13s | 369d, 2h, 22m, 38s | 168d, 20h, 32m, 4s | 47d, 20h, 50m, 37s | 100d, 2h, 1m, 15s | 832d, 13h, 25m, 14s | 1735d, 3h, 17m, 9s |
| Total CPU | About 4 years, 9 months and 1 day | - | ||||||
| Time spent to complete benchmarks | About 21 days | - | ||||||
| Estimated boot time of VMs + management (overhead) |
17d, 18h (Included in total CPU) | - | ||||||
We are pleased to thanks those who helped in the execution of tools:
- Bluewhale03 and Bluewhale07 were made available by colleagues at Université de Genève,
- Caserta was made available by colleagues at University of Twente,
- Ebro was made available by colleagues at Rostock University,
- Quadhexa-1 and Quadhexa-2 were made available by colleagues at Université Paris Nanterre,
- Small is one of the two clusters at LIP6 (we got 16 nodes out of 23) Sorbonne Université.
4. The Results of the MCC’2018
This First table below presents detailed results about the MCC'2018.
| Details about the Examinations in the MCC'2018 (part I): Details about Results and Scoring + Model Performance Charts |
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This Second table below presents some performance analysis related to tools during the MCC'2018.
| Details about the examinations in the MCC'2018 (part II)Tool Performance Charts | ||||
| All models |
«Surprise» models only |
«Known» models only |
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You can download the full archive (3.3 GB compressed and 32 GB uncompressed) of the 102 276 runs processed to compute the results of the MCC'2018. This archive contains execution traces, execution logs and sampling, as well as a large CSV files that summarizes all the executions and gnuplot scripts and data to generate the charts produced in the web site (please have a look on the READ_ME.txt file). Yo may get separately the two mostly interesting CSV files:
- GlobalSummary.csv that summarizes all results from all runs in the contest (21 MB when expanded),
- raw-result-analysis.csv that contains the same data as the previous one but enriched with scoring information and the expected results (computed as a majority of tools pondered by their confidence rate, 26 MB when expanded).
Note that from the two CSV file, you can identify the unique run identifier that allows you to find the traces and any information in the archive (they are also available on the web site when the too did participated).
5. The Winners for the MCC'2018
This section presents the results for the main examinations that are:
- State Space generation,
- UpperBounds computation,
- Reachability Formulas (ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability),
- CTL Formulas (CTLCardinality, CTLFireability),
- LTL Formulas (LTLCardinality, LTLFireability),
To avoid a too large disparity between models with numerous instances and those with only one, a normalization was applied so that the score, for an examination and a model, varies between 102 and 221 points. Therefore, providing a correct value may brings a different number of points according to the considered model. A multiplier was applied depending to the model category:
- ×1 for «Known» models,
- ×4 for «Surprise» models.
5.1. Winners in the StateSpace Category
11 tools out of 12 participated in this examination. Results based on the scoring shown below is:
- GreatSPN ranked first (10 002 pts), Fastest-Tool
- TINA.tedd ranked second (9 730 pts),
- ITS-Tools.L ranked third (8 074 pts, ITS-Tools collected 8 022 pts).
Then, tools rank in the following order: LSMin (5 995 pts), smart (5 720 pts), M4M.full (3 459, M4M.Struct collected 3 418 pts) and Tapaal (3 113 pts). Variants of the out of competition tool Irma got 3 953 pts (full) and 3 938 pts (struct).
GreatSPN got both awards (Fastest-Tool and Smallest Memory Footprint).
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  GreatSPN (fastest 253 times)  GreatSPN (less memory 404 times) |
Note that all the variants of Tina were considered as one tool with regards to the scoring (see rule E-4.5.).
| Estimated Tool Confidence rate for StateSpace (based on the «significant values» computed by tools) see section 6. for details |
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| Tool name | Reliability | Correct Values | «significant values» |
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| LTSMin | 99.68% | 942 | 945 |
| Tapaal | 100.00% | 630 | 630 |
| M4M.full | 100.00% | 907 | 907 |
| M4M.struct | 100.00% | 894 | 894 |
| ITS-Tools | 100.00% | 1506 | 1506 |
| ITS-Tools.L | 100.00% | 1425 | 1425 |
| GreatSPN | 100.00% | 2075 | 2075 |
| smart | 100.00% | 1212 | 1212 |
| TINA.tedd | 99.71% | 2084 | 2090 |
| Irma.full | 100.00% | 1022 | 1022 |
| Irma.struct | 100.00% | 1019 | 1019 |
Please consider note 1 on tool confidence (bottom of this page).
5.2. Winners in the UpperBounds Category
11 tools out of 12 participated in this examination. Results based on the scoring shown below is:
- LoLA ranked first (13 145 pts),
- Tapaal ranked second (9 565 pts),
- GreatSPN ranked third (9 398 pts).
Then, tools rank in the following order: ITS-Tools (9 027 pts, ITS-Tools.L collected 8 821 pts), LTSMin (7 134 pts), smart (5 750 pts), M4M.sruct (3 577, M4M.full collected 3 470 pts). Variants of the out of competition tool Irma got 4 277 pts (full) and 4 255 pts (struct).
LoLA got both awards (Fastest-Tool and Smallest Memory Footprint).
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LoLA (fastest 430 times) LoLA (less memory 464 times) |
| Estimated Tool Confidence rate for UpperBound (based on the «significant values» computed by tools) see section 6. for details |
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| Tool name | Reliability | Correct Values | «significant values» |
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| LTSMin | 100.00% | 5328 | 5328 |
| Tapaal | 99.98% | 7439 | 7441 |
| LoLA | 100.00% | 8826 | 8826 |
| M4M.full | 99.98% | 3788 | 3789 |
| M4M.struct | 99.98% | 3857 | 3858 |
| ITS-Tools | 100.00% | 8170 | 8170 |
| ITS-Tools.L | 100.00% | 7375 | 7375 |
| GreatSPN | 100.00% | 8541 | 8541 |
| smart | 100.00% | 4921 | 4921 |
| Irma.full | 100.00% | 4926 | 4926 |
| Irma.struct | 100.00% | 4901 | 4901 |
Please consider note 1 on tool confidence (bottom of this page).
5.3. Winners in the Reachability Formulas Category
10 tools out of 12 participated in these examinations (ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityCardinality and ReachabilityFireability). Results based on the scoring shown below is:
- Tapaal ranked first (43 016 pts),
- LoLA ranked second (40 134 pts),
- ITS-Tools.L ranked third (34 806 pts, ITS-Tool collected 34 037 pts).
Then, tools rank in the following order: LTSMin (23 125 pts), GreatSPN (19 900 pts), M4M.full (14 439, M4M.struct collected 14 032 pts). Variants of the out of competition tool Irma got 17 423 pts (full) and 17 395 pts (struct).
LoLA got the Fastest-Tool award and Tappal the Smallest Memory Footprint award.
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LoLA (fastest 1 039 times) Tapaal (less memory 1 404 times) |
| Estimated Tool Confidence rate for Reachability (based on the «significant values» computed by tools) see section 6. for details |
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| Tool name | Reliability | Correct Values | «significant values» |
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| LTSMin | 99,93% | 13418 | 13428 |
| Tapaal | 100.00% | 25131 | 25131 |
| LoLA | 100.00% | 24242 | 24242 |
| M4M.full | 100.00% | 12533 | 12533 |
| M4M.struct | 100.00% | 13012 | 13012 |
| ITS-Tools | 100.00% | 20459 | 20459 |
| ITS-Tools.L | 100.00% | 19894 | 19894 |
| GreatSPN | 100.00% | 10350 | 10350 |
| Irma.full | 100.00% | 13993 | 13993 |
| Irma.struct | 100.00% | 13977 | 13977 |
Please consider note 1 on tool confidence (bottom of this page).
5.4. Winners in the CTL Formulas Category
10 tools out of 12 participated in these examinations (CTLCardinality and CTLFireability). Results based on the scoring shown below is:
- Tapaal ranked first (28 042 pts),
- LoLA ranked second (23 757 pts),
- ITS-Tools ranked third (13 357 pts, ITS-Tools.L collected 12 763 pts).
Then, tools rank in the following order: LTSMin (12 011 pts), GreatSPN (11 748 pts), M4M.struct (4 342, M4M.full collected 4 261 pts). Variants of the out of competition tool Irma got 6 993 pts (struct) and 6977 pts (full).
Tapaal got the Fastest-Tool award and GreatSPN the Smallest Memory Footprint award.
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Tapaal (fastest 312 times) GreatSPN (less memory 330 times) |
| Estimated Tool Confidence rate for CTL (based on the «significant values» computed by tools) see section 6. for details |
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| Tool name | Reliability | Correct Values | «significant values» |
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| LTSMin | 99,99% | 8641 | 8642 |
| Tapaal | 99,99% | 13983 | 13984 |
| LoLA | 99,96% | 12751 | 12756 |
| M4M.full | 99,82% | 4878 | 4887 |
| M4M.struct | 99,92% | 5126 | 5130 |
| ITS-Tools | 100.00% | 11215 | 11215 |
| ITS-Tools.L | 100.00% | 10554 | 10554 |
| GreatSPN | 100.00% | 9817 | 9817 |
| Irma.full | 100.00% | 7224 | 7224 |
Please consider note 1 on tool confidence (bottom of this page).
5.5. Winners in the LTL Formulas Category
8 tools out of 12 participated in these examinations (LTLCardinality and LTLFireability). Results based on the scoring shown below is:
- LoLA ranked first (30 266 pts),
- LTSMin ranked second (26 536 pts),
- ITS-Tools.L ranked third (23 210 pts, ITS-Tools collected 23 005 pts).
Then, tools rank in the following order: M4M.struct (10 376, M4M.full collected 9 845 pts). Variants of the out of competition tool Irma got 10 188 pts (struct) and 10 155 pts (full).
LoLA got both awards (Fastest-Tool and Smallest Memory Footprint).
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LoLA (fastest 840 times) LoLA (less memory 960 times) |
| Estimated Tool Confidence rate for LTL (based on the «significant values» computed by tools) see section 6. for details |
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| Tool name | Reliability | Correct Values | «significant values» |
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| LTSMin | 100.00% | 18906 | 18906 |
| LoLA | 100.00% | 22976 | 22977 |
| M4M.full | 100.00% | 11356 | 11356 |
| M4M.struct | 100.00% | 12009 | 12009 |
| ITS-Tools | 99,99% | 20289 | 20291 |
| ITS-Tools.L | 99,99% | 20250 | 20252 |
| Irma.full | 100.00% | 11873 | 11873 |
| Irma.struct | 100.00% | 11947 | 11947 |
Please consider note 1 on tool confidence (bottom of this page).
6. Estimation of the Global Tool Confidence
A confidence analysis enforces the computation of «right results» based on the answers of participating tools. To do so, we considered each value provided in the contest (a value is a partial result such as the result of a formula or a number provided for state space, bound computation, etc.). To do so, we processed as follows:
- For each «line» (all tools for a given examination for a given instance), we selected all «significant values» where at least 3 tools do agree.
- Based on this subset of values, we computed the ratio between the selected values for the tool and the number of good answers hey provide for such values. This ratio gave us a tool confidence rate that is provided in the table below.
- This tool confidence rate rate was then applied to compute the scores presented in the dedicated section.
The table below provides, in first column, the computed confidence rates (that are naturally lower for tools where a bug was detected). Then, the table provides the number of correct results (column 2) out of the number of «significant values» selected for the tool (column 3). The last column shows the number of examinations (and their type) the tool was involved in.
| Estimated Tool Confidence rate (based on the «significant values» computed by tools) | ||||
| Tool name | Reliability | Correct Values | «significant values» | Involved Examinations |
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| GreatSPN | 100.00% | 30783 | 30783 | 7 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability |
| smart | 100.00% | 6133 | 6133 | 2 StateSpace, UpperBounds |
| TINA.tedd | 99.71% | 2084 | 2090 | 1 StateSpace |
| ITS-Tools | 100.00% | 61639 | 61641 | 9 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |
| ITS-Tools.L | 100.00% | 59498 | 59500 | 9 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |
| LoLA | 99.99% | 68795 | 68801 | 8 UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |
| LTSMin | 99.97% | 47235 | 47249 | 9 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |
| M4M.full | 99.97% | 33462 | 33472 | 9 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |
| M4M.struct | 99.98% | 34898 | 34903 | 9 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |
| Tapaal | 99.99% | 47183 | 47186 | 7 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability |
| Irma.full | 100.00% | 39038 | 39038 | 9 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |
| Irma.struct | 100.00% | 39097 | 39097 | 9 StateSpace, UpperBounds, ReachabilityCardinality, ReachabilityDeadlock, ReachabilityFireability, CTLCardinality, CTLFireability, LTLCardinality, LTLFireability |