Introduction¶

IDP-Z3 is a collection of software components implementing the Knowledge Base paradigm using the IDP language and a Z3 SMT solver.

These components together enable the creation of these solutions:

the Interactive Consultant, which allow a knowledge expert to enter knowledge about a particular problem domain, and an end user to interactively find solutions for particular problem instances;
a program with a command line interface to compute inferences on a knowledge base;
a web-based Interactive Development Environment (IDE) to create Knowledge bases.

The source code of IDP-Z3 is publicly available under the GNU Affero General Public License.

Installation¶

IDP-Z3 is installed using the python package ecosystem, which supports Unix, Windows and MacOS.

install python 3, with pip3, making sure that python3 is in the PATH.
use git to clone https://gitlab.com/krr/autoconfigz3 to a directory on your machine
(For Linux and MacOS) open a terminal in that directory and run the following commands.

python3 -m venv .
source bin/activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

python3 -m venv .
.\Scripts\activate
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

To launch the web server on Linux/MacOS, run

source bin/activate
python3 main.py

On Windows, the commands are:

.\Scripts\activate
python3 main.py

After that, you can open the