Everything about Promela

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PromelaA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: From symbolic constraint automata to PromelaInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Antaraṅga āloke Najarula o PramīlāThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Issues in slicing PROMELA and its applications to model checking, protocol understanding, and simulationCited 41 times
5. Go sideways: SystemVerilogA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Guarded Command LanguageA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Issues in slicing PROMELA and its applications to model checking, protocol understanding, and simulation

  Lynette I. Millett, Tim Teitelbaum · 2000 · International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer · 41 citations

• Formalization and validation of the General Inter-ORB Protocol (GIOP) using PROMELA and SPIN

  Moataz Kamel, Stefan Leue · 2000 · International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) · 35 citations

• Bounded verification of message-passing concurrency in Go using Promela and Spin

  Nicolas Dilley, Julien Lange · 2020 · Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science · 16 citations

• A generalized semantics of PROMELA for abstract model checking

  María del Mar Gallardo, Pedro Merino, Ernesto Pimentel · 2004 · Formal Aspects of Computing · 16 citations

• SpinS: Extending LTSmin with Promela through SpinJa

  Freark van der Berg, Alfons Laarman · 2013 · Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science · 13 citations

• DEv-PROMELA: modeling, verification, and validation of a video game by combining model-checking and simulation

  Aznam Yacoub, Maamar El Amine Hamri, Claudia Frydman · 2020 · SIMULATION · 11 citations

• Sdl2pml — Tool for automated generation of Promela model from SDL specification

  Aleksander Vreže, Boštjan Vlaovič, Zmago Brezočnik · 2009 · Computer Standards & Interfaces · 8 citations

• Spin-to-Grape: A Tool for Analysing Symmetry in Promela Models

  Alastair Donaldson, Alice Miller, Muffy Calder · 2005 · Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science · 8 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• From symbolic constraint automata to Promela

  Hui Feng, Marcello Bonsangue, Benjamin Lion · 2022 · Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming · 1 citations

• PROMELA based formal verification for safety-critical software

  Liang XING, Chengjun DING, Hupeng DU · 2022 · Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University · 1 citations

• Разработка транслятора кода из C в Promela, как компонента интеллектуальной обучающей системы для обучения программированию

  К.С. Кулюкин, Г.А. Якимов, Д.А. Смутин · 2025 · МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ, ОПТИМИЗАЦИЯ И ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫЕ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ · 0 citations

• Synthesizing Promela model sketches using abstract lifted model checking

  Aleksandar S. Dimovski · 2023 · International Journal of Information Technology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Antaraṅga āloke Najarula o PramīlāĀsādula Haka · 2009
• 📕A short-term test method for assessing the reproductive toxicity of endocrine-disrupting chemicals using the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) · 2002
• 📕Standard test fish developmentIra R. Adelman · 1976
• 📕Short-term toxicity, pharmacokinetics, and critical body residues (CBR) for 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, pentachlorobenzene, and hexachlorobenzene in larval fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)Kory J Groetsch · 1996
• Design and validation of computer protocolsGerard J. Holzmann · 1991
• 📕Antaraṅga āloke Najarula o Pramīlā · 2009
• 📕Acute toxicities of organic chemicals to fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) · 1984
• 📕Acute Toxicities of Organic Chemicals to Flathead Minnows (Pimephales Promelas)D. L. Geiger, C. E. Northcott · 1985

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