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Operators of Earth observation satellites need justifications for scheduling decisions: why a request was selected, rejected, or what changes would make it schedulable. Existing approaches construct post-hoc reasoning layers independent of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Najeeb Khan

Live migration, a technology enabling seamless transition of operational computational entities between various hosts while preserving continuous functionality and client connectivity, has been the subject of extensive research. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sima Attar-Khorasani , Lincoln Sherpa , Matthias Lieber , Siavash Ghiasvand

The poset cover problem seeks a minimum set of partial orders whose linear extensions cover a given set of linear orders. Recognizing its NP-completeness, we devised a non-trivial reduction to the Boolean satisfiability problem using a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Chih-Cheng Rex Yuan , Bow-Yaw Wang

Branching and merging are common practices in collaborative software development, increasing developer's productivity. Despite such benefits, developers need to merge software and resolve merge conflicts. While modern merge techniques can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Léuson Da Silva , Paulo Borba , Toni Maciel , Wardah Mahmood , Thorsten Berger , João Moisakis , Aldiberg Gomes , Vinícius Leite

MaxSAT, the optimization version of the well-known SAT problem, has attracted a lot of research interest in the last decade. Motivated by the many important applications and inspired by the success of modern SAT solvers, researchers have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Javier Larrosa , Emma Rollon

We study the complexity of reasoning tasks for logics in team semantics. Our main focus is on the data complexity of model checking but we also derive new results for logically defined counting and enumeration problems. Our approach is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Arnaud Durand , Juha Kontinen , Jouko Väänänen

Earlier we introduced the notion of a stable set of points (SSP). We proved that a CNF formula is unsatisfiable iff there is a set of points (i.e. complete assignments) that is stable with respect to this formula. Experiments showed that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Eugene Goldberg

In this paper we study biased random K-SAT problems in which each logical variable is negated with probability $p$. This generalization provides us a crossover from easy to hard problems and would help us in a better understanding of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ramezanpour , S. Moghimi-Araghi

We propose the concept of adaptable processes as a way of overcoming the limitations that process calculi have for describing patterns of dynamic process evolution. Such patterns rely on direct ways of controlling the behavior and location…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Mario Bravetti , Cinzia Di Giusto , Jorge A Perez , Gianluigi Zavattaro

We present a family of planted-solution benchmark instances for satisfiability (SAT) solvers and Ising optimization derived from integer factorization. Given two primes $p$ and $q$, the construction encodes the arithmetic constraints of $N…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Itay Hen

Mutation analysis has many applications, such as asserting the quality of test suites and localizing faults. One important bottleneck of mutation analysis is scalability. The latest work explores the possibility of reducing the redundant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Bo Wang , Yingfei Xiong , Yangqingwei Shi , Lu Zhang , Dan Hao

We present a formalization of modern SAT solvers and their properties in a form of abstract state transition systems. SAT solving procedures are described as transition relations over states that represent the values of the solver's global…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Filip Maric , Predrag Janicic

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

Super-stability is one of the stability concepts in the stable matching problem with ties. It is known that there may not exist a super-stable matching, and the existence of a super-stable matching can be checked in polynomial time. In this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Naoyuki Kamiyama

Instances of logical cryptanalysis, circuit verification, and bounded model checking can often be succinctly represented as a combined satisfiability (SAT) problem where an instance is a combination of traditional clauses and parity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Tero Laitinen , Tommi Junttila , Ilkka Niemelä

In this paper, we discuss the feasibility of monitoring partially synchronous distributed systems to detect latent bugs, i.e., errors caused by concurrency and race conditions among concurrent processes. We present a monitoring framework…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Vidhya Tekken Valapil , Sorrachai Yingchareonthawornchai , Sandeep Kulkarni , Eric Torng , Murat Demirbas

MaxSAT is an optimization version of the famous NP-complete Satisfiability problem (SAT). Algorithms for MaxSAT mainly include complete solvers and local search incomplete solvers. In many complete solvers, once a better solution is found,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jiongzhi Zheng , Zhuo Chen , Chu-Min Li , Kun He

This work focuses on effectively generating diverse solutions for satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) formulas, targeting the theories of bit-vectors, arrays, and uninterpreted functions, which is a critical task in software and hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuangyu Lyu , Chuan Luo , Ruizhi Shi , Wei Wu , Chanjuan Liu , Chunming Hu

In the contexts of automated reasoning (AR) and formal verification (FV), important decision problems are effectively encoded into Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). In the last decade efficient SMT solvers have been developed for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Roberto Sebastiani , Silvia Tomasi

We present a novel approach for solving quantified bit-vector formulas in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) based on computing symbolic inverses of bit-vector operators. We derive conditions that precisely characterize when bit-vector…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Aina Niemetz , Mathias Preiner , Andrew Reynolds , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli