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In this paper, we propose a first application of data mining techniques to propositional satisfiability. Our proposed Mining4SAT approach aims to discover and to exploit hidden structural knowledge for reducing the size of propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Said Jabbour , Lakhdar Sais , Yakoub Salhi

A central task in knowledge compilation is to compile a CNF-SAT instance into a succinct representation format that allows efficient operations such as testing satisfiability, counting, or enumerating all solutions. Useful representation…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Christoph Berkholz , Stefan Mengel , Hermann Wilhelm

We show that #SAT is polynomial-time tractable for classes of CNF formulas whose incidence graphs have bounded symmetric clique-width (or bounded clique-width, or bounded rank-width). This result strictly generalizes polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Friedrich Slivovsky , Stefan Szeider

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

Structural parameters of graphs, such as treewidth, play a central role in the study of the parameterized complexity of graph problems. Motivated by the study of parametrized algorithms on phylogenetic networks, scanwidth was introduced…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jannik Schestag , Norbert Zeh

It is known for many algorithmic problems that if a tree decomposition of width $t$ is given in the input, then the problem can be solved with exponential dependence on $t$. A line of research by Lokshtanov, Marx, and Saurabh [SODA 2011]…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Barış Can Esmer , Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Paweł Rzążewski

A novel parallel algorithm for solving the classical Decision Boolean Satisfiability problem with clauses in conjunctive normal form is depicted. My approach for solving SAT is without using algebra or other computational search strategies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Carlos Barrón-Romero

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is an increasingly popular framework for declarative programming that admits the description of problems by means of rules and constraints that form a disjunctive logic program. In particular, many AI problems…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Johannes Klaus Fichte , Stefan Szeider

Given a CNF formula F on n variables, the problem of model counting or #SAT is to compute the number of satisfying assignments of F . Model counting is a fundamental but hard problem in computer science with varied applications. Recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Kuldeep S. Meel , S. Akshay

Over the past several decades, CDCL SAT solvers have proven remarkably effective on large industrial formulas, despite SAT being NP-complete and widely believed to be intractable. While considerable empirical research has been done on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shimin Zhang , Yechuan Xia , Chunxiao Li , Jianwen Li , Moshe Y. Vardi , Vijay Ganesh

We show that the Satisfiability (SAT) problem for CNF formulas with {\beta}-acyclic hypergraphs can be solved in polynomial time by using a special type of Davis-Putnam resolution in which each resolvent is a subset of a parent clause. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Sebastian Ordyniak , Daniel Paulusma , Stefan Szeider

Over the years complexity theorists have proposed many structural parameters to explain the surprising efficiency of conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) SAT solvers on a wide variety of large industrial Boolean instances. While some of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Edward Zulkoski , Ruben Martins , Christoph Wintersteiger , Robert Robere , Jia Liang , Krzysztof Czarnecki , Vijay Ganesh

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a generic problem modeling and solving framework with a strong focus on knowledge representation and a rapid growth of industrial applications. So far, the study of complexity resulted in characterizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Markus Hecher , Rafael Kiesel

The notion of $\mathcal{H}$-treewidth, where $\mathcal{H}$ is a hereditary graph class, was recently introduced as a generalization of the treewidth of an undirected graph. Roughly speaking, a graph of $\mathcal{H}$-treewidth at most $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jari J. H. de Kroon , Michal Wlodarczyk

Cutwidth is a widely studied parameter that quantifies how well a graph can be decomposed along small edge-cuts. It complements pathwidth, which captures decomposition by small vertex separators, and it is well-known that cutwidth…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Narek Bojikian , Vera Chekan , Stefan Kratsch

We introduce a one-sided incidence tree decomposition of a CNF $\varphi$. This is a tree decomposition of the incidence graph of $\varphi$ where the underlying tree is rooted and the set of bags containing each clause induces a directed…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Andrea Cali , Igor Razgon

A Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraint is a linear arithmetic constraint over Boolean variables. PB constraints are convenient and widely used in expressing NP-complete problems. We introduce a new, two step, method for transforming PB…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Amir Aavani

In sphere of research of discrete optimization algorithms efficiency the important place occupies a method of polynomial reducibility of some problems to others with use of special purpose components. In this paper a novel method of compact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 V. F. Romanov

Knots are commonly represented and manipulated via diagrams, which are decorated planar graphs. When such a knot diagram has low treewidth, parameterized graph algorithms can be leveraged to ensure the fast computation of many invariants…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Corentin Lunel , Arnaud de Mesmay

A backbone of a propositional CNF formula is a variable whose truth value is the same in every truth assignment that satisfies the formula. The notion of backbones for CNF formulas has been studied in various contexts. In this paper, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Ronald de Haan , Iyad Kanj , Stefan Szeider