This case study is based on Lehmann and Rabin's solution to the well known dining philosophers problem [LR81] and the analysis of this algorithm by Lynch, Saias and Segala [LSS94]. For more information, see: http://www.prismmodelchecker.org/casestudies/phil_lss.php ===================================================================================== [LR81] D. Lehmann and M. Rabin On the Advantages of Free Choice: A Symmetric Fully Distributed Solution to the Dining Philosophers Problem (Extended Abstract) In Proc. 8th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 133-138, 1981 LSS94] N. Lynch, I. Saias and R. Segala Proving Time Bounds for Randomized Distributed Algorithms In Proc. 13th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pp. 314-323, 1994