I'd like to use Z3 to solve problems that are most naturally expressed in terms of atoms (symbols), sets, predicates, and first order logic. For example (in pseudocode): A = {a1, a2, a3, ...} # A i...

This is homework and I'm having a lot of trouble with it. I am using Alloy to model a library. Here are the definitions of the objects: sig Library { patrons : set Person, on_shelves : set Book,...

I have been interested in formal methods for some time. I have used formal methods to reason about some very specific sub-areas of a few projects I have been working on. I was never able to convinc...

I'm building a simple Alloy to generate simple Java Pojo objects and some fields of that pojo are Boolean values. I'm now using the following mechanism to achieve this function one sig item { aut...

I am generating quite a lot of Alloys specifications (*.als files). For a medium-size problem I am trying to solve, I generated 1536 *.als files. In order to save time running all these files, I us...