Exploring Scenario Exploration [chapter]

Nuno Macedo, Alcino Cunha, Tiago Guimarães
2015 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Model finders are very popular for exploring scenarios, helping users validate specifications by navigating through conforming model instances. To be practical, the semantics of such scenario exploration operations should be formally defined and, ideally, controlled by the users, so that they are able to quickly reach interesting scenarios. This paper explores the landscape of scenario exploration operations, by formalizing them with a relational model finder. Several scenario exploration
more » ... ions provided by existing tools are formalized, and new ones are proposed, namely to allow the user to easily explore very similar (or different) scenarios, by attaching preferences to model elements. As a proof-of-concept, such operations were implemented in the popular Alloy Analyzer, further increasing its usefulness for (user-guided) scenario exploration.
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-46675-9_20 fatcat:frwnd6ig7ngovi343m5otzlcuu