// herman's self stabilising algorithm [Her90] // gxn/dxp 13/07/02 // the procotol is synchronous with no nondeterminism (a DTMC) dtmc const double p = 0.5; // module for process 1 module process1 // Boolean variable for process 1 x1 : [0..1]; [step] (x1=x7) -> p : (x1'=0) + 1-p : (x1'=1); [step] !(x1=x7) -> (x1'=x7); endmodule // add further processes through renaming module process2 = process1 [ x1=x2, x7=x1 ] endmodule module process3 = process1 [ x1=x3, x7=x2 ] endmodule module process4 = process1 [ x1=x4, x7=x3 ] endmodule module process5 = process1 [ x1=x5, x7=x4 ] endmodule module process6 = process1 [ x1=x6, x7=x5 ] endmodule module process7 = process1 [ x1=x7, x7=x6 ] endmodule // cost - 1 in each state (expected number of steps) rewards "steps" true : 1; endrewards // set of initial states: all (i.e. any possible initial configuration of tokens) init true endinit // formula, for use in properties: number of tokens // (i.e. number of processes that have the same value as the process to their left) formula num_tokens = (x1=x2?1:0)+(x2=x3?1:0)+(x3=x4?1:0)+(x4=x5?1:0)+(x5=x6?1:0)+(x6=x7?1:0)+(x7=x1?1:0); // label - stable configurations (1 token) label "stable" = num_tokens=1;