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SAT
2004
Springer
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Using Lower-Bound Estimates in SAT-Based Pseudo-Boolean Optimization
Linear Pseudo-Boolean constraints offer a much more compact formalism to express significant boolean problems in several areas, ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Electroni...
Vasco M. Manquinho, João P. Marques Silva
SAT
2004
Springer
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Derandomization of Schuler's Algorithm for SAT
Abstract. Recently Schuler [17] presented a randomized algorithm that solves SAT in expected time at most 2n(1−1/ log2(2m)) up to a polynomial factor, where n and m are, respecti...
Evgeny Dantsin, Alexander Wolpert
SAT
2004
Springer
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Local Search with Bootstrapping
We propose and study a technique to improve the performance of those local-search SAT solvers that proceed by executing a prespecified number of tries, each starting with an eleme...
Lengning Liu, Miroslaw Truszczynski
SAT
2004
Springer
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A Random Constraint Satisfaction Problem That Seems Hard for DPLL
Abstract. This paper discusses an NP-complete constraint satisfaction problem which appears to share many of the threshold characteristics of SAT but is similar to XOR-SAT and so i...
Harold S. Connamacher
SAT
2004
Springer
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Using Rewarding Mechanisms for Improving Branching Heuristics
The variable branching heuristics used in the most recent and most effective SAT solvers, including zChaff and BerkMin, can be viewed as consisting of a simple mechanism for rewa...
Elsa Carvalho, João P. Marques Silva
SAT
2004
Springer
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Clause Form Conversions for Boolean Circuits
The Boolean circuits is well established as a data structure for building propositional encodings of problems in preparation for satisfiability solving. The standard method for co...
Paul Jackson, Daniel Sheridan
SAT
2004
Springer
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Resolve and Expand
We present a novel expansion based decision procedure for quantified boolean formulas (QBF) in conjunctive normal form (CNF). The basic idea is to resolve existentially quantifie...
Armin Biere
SAT
2004
Springer
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Improving First-order Model Searching by Propositional Reasoning and Lemma Learning
The finite model generation problem in the first-order logic is a generalization of the propositional satisfiability (SAT) problem. An essential algorithm for solving the proble...
Zhuo Huang, Hantao Zhang, Jian Zhang
SAT
2004
Springer
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Fifty-Five Solvers in Vancouver: The SAT 2004 Competition
Abstract. For the third consecutive year, a SAT competition was organized as a joint event with the SAT conference. With 55 solvers from 25 author groups, the competition was a cle...
Daniel Le Berre, Laurent Simon
SAT
2004
Springer
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The Second QBF Solvers Comparative Evaluation
This paper reports about the 2004 comparative evaluation of solvers for quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs), the second in a series of non-competitive events established with the a...
Daniel Le Berre, Massimo Narizzano, Laurent Simon,...