A formalization of a startup finance transaction model using Alloy

Abstract

This thesis proposes a formal model for a subset of the startup finance transaction space.The initial version of the provided domain is the result of an industry coalition effort to make the data model standard.The data definition explains how this domain can be modeled syntactically. We refined this first model with semantics on transactions by using the Alloy formal modeling language and analyzer, aiming for a more expressive and correct model by capturing domain invariants.As a result, our design is machine-checkable for important safety integrity criteria and stated as a formal domain specification. ContentsGlossary I Background