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In computer science and formal methods, a SAT solver is a computer program which aims to solve the Boolean satisfiability problem.On input a formula over Boolean variables, such as "(x or y) and (x or not y)", a SAT solver outputs whether the formula is satisfiable, meaning that there are possible values of x and y which make the formula true, or unsatisfiable, meaning that there are no such ...
For example, x 1 is a positive literal, ¬x 2 is a negative literal, and x 1 ∨ ¬x 2 is a clause. The formula ( x 1 ∨ ¬ x 2 ) ∧ (¬ x 1 ∨ x 2 ∨ x 3 ) ∧ ¬ x 1 is in conjunctive normal form; its first and third clauses are Horn clauses, but its second clause is not.
Domain-specific constraints may come to the constraint store both from the body of a clauses and from equating a literal with a clause head: for example, if the interpreter rewrites the literal A(X+2) with a clause whose fresh variant head is A(Y/2), the constraint X+2=Y/2 is added to the constraint store. If a variable appears in a real or ...
The basic backtracking algorithm runs by choosing a literal, assigning a truth value to it, simplifying the formula and then recursively checking if the simplified formula is satisfiable; if this is the case, the original formula is satisfiable; otherwise, the same recursive check is done assuming the opposite truth value.
Walther gave a unification algorithm for terms in order-sorted logic, requiring for any two declared sorts s 1, s 2 their intersection s 1 ∩ s 2 to be declared, too: if x 1 and x 2 is a variable of sort s 1 and s 2, respectively, the equation x 1 ≐ x 2 has the solution { x 1 = x, x 2 = x}, where x: s 1 ∩ s 2.
In Boolean logic, a formula is in conjunctive normal form (CNF) or clausal normal form if it is a conjunction of one or more clauses, where a clause is a disjunction of literals; otherwise put, it is a product of sums or an AND of ORs.
Unit propagation of a literal can be performed efficiently by scanning only the list of clauses containing the variable of the literal. More precisely, the total running time for doing unit propagation for all unit clauses is linear in the size of the set of clauses.
Aspvall, Plass & Tarjan (1979) found a simpler linear time procedure for solving 2-satisfiability instances, based on the notion of strongly connected components from graph theory. [4] Two vertices in a directed graph are said to be strongly connected to each other if there is a directed path from one to the other and vice versa.