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In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to solve the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem, using noise-based logic (NBL). Contrary to what the name may suggest, NBL is not a random/fuzzy logic system. In fact, it is a completely…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-05 Pey-Chang Kent Lin , Ayan Mandal , Sunil P Khatri

SAT provers are powerful tools for solving real-sized logic problems, but using them requires solid programming knowledge and may be seen w.r.t.\ logic like assembly language w.r.t.\ programming. Something like a high level language was…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Khaled Skander Ben Slimane , Alexis Comte , Olivier Gasquet , Abdelwahab Heba , Olivier Lezaud , Frederic Maris , Mael Valais

The globalization of the IC supply chain has raised many security threats, especially when untrusted parties are involved. This has created a demand for a dependable logic obfuscation solution to combat these threats. Amongst a wide range…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Kimia Zamiri Azar , Hadi Mardani Kamali , Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan

Interference is a phenomenon on proof systems for SAT solving that is both counter-intuitive and bothersome when developing proof-logging techniques. However, all existing proof systems that can produce short proofs for all inprocessing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Adrian Rebola-Pardo

The Implicit Hitting Set (HS) approach has shown to be very effective for MaxSAT, Pseudo-boolean optimization and other boolean frameworks. Very recently, it has also shown its potential in the very similar Weighted CSP framework by means…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Emma Rollón , Javier Larrosa , Aleksandra Petrova

We present Woorpje, a string solver for bounded word equations (i.e., equations where the length of each variable is upper bounded by a given integer). Our algorithm works by reformulating the satisfiability of bounded word equations as a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Joel D. Day , Thorsten Ehlers , Mitja Kulczynski , Florin Manea , Dirk Nowotka , Danny Bøgsted Poulsen

Satisfiability problem (SAT) is a cornerstone of computational complexity with broad industrial applications, and it remains challenging to optimize modern SAT solvers in real-world settings due to their intricate architectures. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwen Sun , Furong Ye , Zhihan Chen , Ke Wei , Shaowei Cai

The phase selection is an important of a SAT Solver based on conflict-driven DPLL. This paper presents a new phase selection strategy, in which the weight of each literal is defined as the sum of its implied-literals static weights. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-08-09 Jingchao Chen

This paper introduces the XOR-OR-AND normal form (XNF) for logical formulas. It is a generalization of the well-known Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) where literals are replaced by XORs of literals. As a first theoretic result, we show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Bernhard Andraschko , Julian Danner , Martin Kreuzer

The boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem asks whether there exists an assignment of boolean values to the variables of an arbitrary boolean formula making the formula evaluate to True. It is well-known that all NP-problems can be coded as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Christopher R. Serrano , Jonathan Gallagher , Kenji Yamada , Alexei Kopylov , Michael A. Warren

This paper gives a novel approach to analyze SAT problem more deeply. First, I define new elements of Boolean formula such as dominant variable, decision chain, and chain coupler. Through the analysis of the SAT problem using the elements,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Keum-Bae Cho

The classical satisfiability problem (SAT) is used as a natural and general tool to express and solve combinatorial problems that are in NP. We postulate that provability for implicational intuitionistic propositional logic (IIPC) can serve…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Aleksy Schubert , Paweł Urzyczyn , Konrad Zdanowski

The Circuit Satisfiability (CSAT) problem, a variant of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem, plays a critical role in integrated circuit design and verification. However, existing SAT solvers, optimized for Conjunctive Normal Form…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhengyuan Shi , Tiebing Tang , Jiaying Zhu , Sadaf Khan , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Zhufei Chu , Qiang Xu

The quantified Boolean formula problem (QBF) is a well-known PSpace-complete problem with rich expressive power, and is generally viewed as the SAT analogue for PSpace. Given that many problems today are solved in practice by reducing to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist , Sebastian Ordyniak , George Osipov , Fahad Panolan , Mateusz Rychlicki

The one of the most interesting problem of discrete mathematics is the SAT (satisfiability) problem. Good way in SAT solver developing is to transform the SAT problem to the problem of continuous search of global minimums of the functional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-07-13 R. T. Faizullin , I. G. Khnykin , V. I. Dylkeyt

The Divide and Distribute Fixed Weights algorithm (ddfw) is a dynamic local search SAT-solving algorithm that transfers weight from satisfied to falsified clauses in local minima. ddfw is remarkably effective on several hard combinatorial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Md Solimul Chowdhury , Cayden R. Codel , Marijn J. H. Heule

All solutions SAT (AllSAT for short) is a variant of propositional satisfiability problem. Despite its significance, AllSAT has been relatively unexplored compared to other variants. We thus survey and discuss major techniques of AllSAT…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Takahisa Toda , Takehide Soh

Cryptographic problems can often be reduced to solving Boolean polynomial systems, whose equivalent logical formulas can be treated using SAT solvers. Given the algebraic nature of the problem, the use of the logical XOR operator is common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Monika Trimoska , Sorina Ionica , Gilles Dequen

Today's propositional satisfiability (SAT) solvers are extremely powerful and can be used as an efficient back-end for solving NP-complete problems. However, many fundamental problems in knowledge representation and reasoning are located at…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Ronald de Haan , Stefan Szeider

This paper introduces a propositional encoding for lexicographic path orders in connection with dependency pairs. This facilitates the application of SAT solvers for termination analysis of term rewrite systems based on the dependency pair…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael Codish , Peter Schneider-Kamp , Vitaly Lagoon , René Thiemann , Jürgen Giesl