Dear colleague,

we proudly announce the release of version 2.0 of our Petri net

verification tool LoLA. The new version can be downloaded from


http://service-technology.org/files/lola/


LoLA checks by explicit state space verification whether a place/transition

net satisfies a specified property. It offers a broad range of state space

reduction methods and specialised procedures for simple properties such

as reachability or deadlocks.


Compared to LoLA 1.x, LoLA 2.0 is a complete re-implementation.

The following major changes have been done:


* Unlike LoLA 1.x, LoLA 2.0 has a single executable. So there is no need

  for compile-time configuration any more.


* All properties are specified in a uniform language: CTL*. LoLA

  analyses the property and runs a suitable checker such as a CTL or LTL

  model checker, a reachability checker, or a deadlock checker. General

  CTL* model checking is not available, though.


* LTL model checking has not been present in LoLA 1.x. In LoLA 2.0, both

  CTL and LTL properties can be checked (currently without partial order

  reduction).


* The symmetry method has been extended to arbitrary properties. We

  automatically compute symmetries that preserve both net structure and

  formula.


* Output and status messages have been reshaped to make integration of

  LoLA into other tools even more easy.


* Advanced Bloom filters are available for state space compaction.


* Several sub-tasks can distribute their computations over multiple cores,
if

  available.


* We support additional atomic propositions like "DEADLOCK", "INITIAL",

  "FIREABLE(t)", and comparisons that involve several places, such as

  "p2 + 3 * p7 < 5 * p3". For coverabilty queries, the value "oo" has been

  introduced. This way, unboundedness of a place can be specified by "p >=
oo".


On the other hand, high level net input is not (yet) supported.


More details can be found in the user manual at

http://service-technology.org/files/lola/lola.pdf

Kind regards

Niels Lohmann
Karsten Wolf
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