NASALib is a continuing collaborative effort that has spanned over 3 decades, to aid in research related to theorem proving sponsored by NASA (https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/pvs/). It consists of a collection of formal development (i.e., libraries) written in the Prototype Verification System (PVS), contributed by SRI, NASA,NIA, and the PVS community, and maintained by the NASA/NIA Formal Methods Team at LaRC.

The current version of NASALib is 7.1.1 (1/30/23) and requires PVS 7.1.

Currently, NASALib consists of 64 libraries, containing about 35K proven formulas.

NASALib also provides a collection of scripts that automates several tasks.

• proveit (*) - Runs PVS in batch mode
• provethem (*) - Runs proveit on several libraries
• pvsio (*) - Command-line utility to run the PVSio ground evaluator.
• prove-all - Runs proveit on each library in NASALib by wrapping provethem in order to provide a specific kind of run.
• cleanbin-all - Clean .pvscontext and binary files from PVS libraries.
• find-all - Searches strings matching a given regular expressions in PVS libraries.
• dependencygraph - Generates a library dependency graph for libraries in the current directory.
• dependency-all - Generates the dependency graphs for the PVS libraries in the current folder.

Click here for more details on these scripts.

(*) Already included in the PVS 7.1 distribution.

NASALib (v7.0.1) is fully compatible with VSCode-PVS, a modern graphical interface to PVS based on Visual Studio Code. The latest version of NASALib can be installed from VSCode-PVS.

For PVS advanced users, the development version is available from GitHub. To clone the development version, type the following command inside directory where PVS 7.0 is installed. Henceforth, that directory will be referred to as <pvsdir>. In the following commands, the dollar sign represents the prompt of the operating system.

$ git clone https://github.com/nasa/pvslib nasalib 

The command above will put a copy of the library in the directory <pvsdir>/nasalib.

• The library groups is now deprecated. The group library was integrated into algebra . A symbolic link is still provided for backward compatibility, but its use is discouraged. Every mention to groups should be replaced by algebra.

• The library trig_fnd is now deprecated. It's still provided for backward compatibility, but it should be replaced by trig. The new library trig, which used to be axiomatic, is now foundational. However, in contrast to trig_fnd, trigonometric definitions are based on infinite series, rather than integrals. This change considerably reduces the type-checking of theories involving trigonometric functions. The change from trig_fnd to trig should not have a major impact in your formal developments since names of definitions and lemmas are the same. However, theory importing may be slightly different.

• The PVS developments TCASII, WellClear, and DAIDALUS are now available as part of the GitHub WellClear distribution. The PVS development PRECiSA is now available as part of the GitHub PRECiSA distribution. The PVS development PolyCARP is now available as part of the GitHub PolyCARP distribution.

The following instructions assume that NASALib is located in the directory <pvsdir>/nasalib.

If it does not exists, creates such variable and with the path of this directory as only content. It is usually very useful to have your shell systems creating this variable at startup. To this end, and depending upon your shell, you may want to add one of the following lines in your startup script. For C shell (csh or tcsh), you may add this line in ~/.cshrc:

setenv PVS_LIBRARY_PATH "<pvsdir>/nasalib"

For Borne shell (bash or sh), add this line in either ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile:

export PVS_LIBRARY_PATH="<pvsdir>/nasalib"

If you had a previous installation of NASALib, either remove the file ~/.pvs.lisp or, if you have a special configuration in that file, remove the following line

(load "<pvsdir>/nasalib/pvs-patches.lisp") 

Finally, go to the directory <pvsdir>/nasalib and run the following shell scripts (the dollar sign represents the prompt of the operating system).

The install-scripts command will update and install NASALib scripts as needed.

$ ./install-scripts

Older versions of NASALib are available from https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/fm/ftp/larc/PVS-library.

NASALib has grown over the years thanks to the contribution of several people, among them:

• Aaron Dutle, NASA, USA
• Alfons Geser, HTWK Leipzig, Germany
• Amer Tahat, Michigan Technological University, USA
• Amy Isvik, Wartburg College, USA
• Ana Cristina Rocha Oliveira, University of Brasilia, Brazil
• André Galdino, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
• Andreia Avelar Borges, University of Brasilia, Brazil
• Anthony Narkawicz, formerly at NASA, USA
• Ariane Alves Almeida, University of Brasilia, Brazil
• Bruno Dutertre, SRI, USA
• Ben Di Vito, NASA (retired), USA
• César Muñoz, formerly at NASA, USA
• Clément Blaudeau, EPFL, Switzerland and Ecole Polytechnique, France
• Concepción Vidal, University of La Coruña, Spain
• David Griffioen,CWI, The Netherlands
• David Lester, Manchester University, UK
• Dragan Stosic, Ireland
• Érik Martin-Dorel, U. Montpellier 2 & U. of Perpignan (formerly), France
• Esther Conrad, NASA, USA
• Felicidad Aguado, University of La Coruña, Spain
• Flavio L.C. de Moura, University of Brasilia, Brazil
• Gilles Dowek, INRIA, France
• George Hagen, NASA, USA
• Gilberto Perez, University of La Coruña, Spain
• Gregory Anderson, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Hanne Gottliebsen, formerly at NIA, USA
• Heber Herencia-Zapana, formerly at NIA, USA
• J. Tanner Slagel, NASA, USA
• Jerry James, Utah State University, USA
• Jeff Maddalon, NASA, USA
• Jon Sjogren, Department of Defense, USA
• John Siratt, formerly at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
• Katherine Cordwell, CMU, USA
• Kristin Rozier, formerly at NASA, USA
• Laura Titolo, NIA & NASA, USA
• Lee Pike, formerly at Galois, USA
• Marco A. Feliú, NIA, USA
• Mariano Moscato, NIA, USA
• Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, University of Brasilia, Brazil
• Natarajan Shankar, SRI, USA
• Pablo Ascariz, formerly at University of La Coruña, Spain
• Paul Miner, NASA, USA
• Pedro Cabalar, University of La Coruña, Spain
• Radu Siminiceanu, formerly at NIA, USA
• Ricky Butler, NASA (retired), USA
• Silvie Boldo, INRIA, France
• Sam Owre, SRI, USA
• Thaynara de Lima, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
• Thiago Mendonça Ferreira Ramos, University of Brasilia, Brazil
• Thomas Norris
• Víctor Carreño, NASA (retired), USA

If we have incorrectly attributed a PVS development or you have contributed to NASALib and your name is not included here, please let us know.

If you want to contribute please read this guide.

NASALib is a collection of formal specifications most of which have been in the public domain for several years. The Formal Methods Team at NASA LaRC still maintains these developments. For the developments originally made by the Formal Methods Team, these developments are considered fundamental research that do not constitute software. Contributions made by others may have particular licenses, which are listed in the file top.pvs in each respective directory. In case of doubt, please contact the developers of each contribution, which are also listed in that file.

PVS patches, which are included in the directory pvs-patches, are part of the PVS source code and they are covered by the PVS open source license.

Some proof strategies require third party research tools, e.g., MetiTarski and Z3. For convenience, they are included in this repository with permission from their authors. Licenses for these tools are also included as appropriate.

Enjoy it.

The NASA/NIA Formal Methods Team at LaRC

Contact: Mariano Moscato