@conference {NMMB-iri, title = {Giving Alloy a family}, booktitle = {IEEE 14th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration - IRI}, year = {2013}, month = {August}, pages = {512-519}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {San Francisco, CA, USA}, abstract = {

Lightweight formal methods ought to provide to the end user the rigorousness of mathematics, without compromising simplicity and intuitiveness. ALLOY is a powerful tool, particularly successful on this mission. Limitations on the verification side, however, are known to prevent its wider use in the development of safety or mission critical applications. A number of researchers proposed ways to connect Alloy to other tools in order to meet such challenges. This paper{\textquoteright}s proposal, however, is not establishing a link from ALLOY to another single tool, but rather to {\textquotedblleft}plunge{\textquotedblright} it into the HETS network of logics, logic translators and provers. This makes possible for Alloy specifications to {\textquotedblleft}borrow{\textquotedblright} the power of several, non dedicated proof systems. Semantical foundations for this integration are discussed in detail.

}, attachments = {https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/lsb/files/nbmm13-iri.pdf}, author = {Renato Neves and Alexandre Madeira and M. Martins and Luis Soares Barbosa} }