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Frequent itemset mining is an essential part of data analysis and data mining. Recent works propose interesting SAT-based encodings for the problem of discovering frequent itemsets. Our aim in this work is to define strategies for adapting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Said Jabbour , Lakhdar Sais , Yakoub Salhi

We present AlloyInEcore, a tool for specifying metamodels with their static semantics to facilitate automated, formal reasoning on models. Software development projects require that software systems be specified in various models (e.g.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ferhat Erata , Arda Goknil , Ivan Kurtev , Bedir Tekinerdogan

Writing declarative models has numerous benefits, ranging from automated reasoning and correction of design-level properties before systems are built to automated testing and debugging of their implementations after they are built.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Guanxuan Wu , Allison Sullivan

We define the concept of a monotonic theory and show how to build efficient SMT (SAT Modulo Theory) solvers, including effective theory propagation and clause learning, for such theories. We present examples showing that monotonic theories…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Sam Bayless , Noah Bayless , Holger H. Hoos , Alan J. Hu

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a fundamental NP-complete problem with many applications, including automated planning and scheduling. To solve large instances, SAT solvers have to rely on heuristics, e.g., choosing a branching variable in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mikhail Shirokikh , Ilya Shenbin , Anton Alekseev , Sergey Nikolenko

The Boolean Satisfiability Problem is perhaps one of the most well-known problems in theoretical computer science. On the one hand, it is proven to be NP-complete, which means that it is generally considered hard to solve. On the other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Flora Rädiker

Congruence closure procedures are used extensively in automated reasoning and are a core component of most satisfiability modulo theories solvers. However, no known congruence closure algorithms can support any of the expressive logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Daniel Selsam , Leonardo de Moura

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

In the last two decades, modal and description logics have been applied to numerous areas of computer science, including knowledge representation, formal verification, database theory, distributed computing and, more recently, semantic web…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Roberto Sebastiani , Michele Vescovi

Many SMT solvers implement efficient SAT-based procedures for solving fixed-size bit-vector formulas. These approaches, however, cannot be used directly to reason about bit-vectors of symbolic bit-width. To address this shortcoming, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Aina Niemetz , Mathias Preiner , Andrew Reynolds , Yoni Zohar , Clark Barrett , Cesare Tinelli

We consider the following \emph{model repair problem}: given a finite Kripke structure $M$ and a specification formula $\eta$ in some modal or temporal logic, determine if $M$ contains a substructure $M'$ (with the same initial state) that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-04-15 Paul C. Attie , Jad Saklawi

The utility of satisfiability (SAT) as an application focused hard computational problem is well established. We explore the potential of quantum annealing to enhance classical SAT solving, especially where sampling from the space of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Kristen L. Pudenz , Gregory S. Tallant , Todd R. Belote , Steven H. Adachi

Over the last few decades, many distinct lines of research aimed at automating mathematics have been developed, including computer algebra systems (CASs) for mathematical modelling, automated theorem provers for first-order logic, SAT/SMT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Curtis Bright , Ilias Kotsireas , Vijay Ganesh

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for tasks that implicitly reduce to Boolean satisfiability (SAT), yet their reasoning ability on SAT remains unclear. We present a systematic study of LLMs on 2-SAT and 3-SAT, together with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leizhen Zhang , Shuhan Chen , Sheng Chen

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

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

The Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT), as the prototypical $\mathsf{NP}$-complete problem, is crucial in both theoretical computer science and practical applications. To address this problem, stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Maximilian J. Kramer , Paul Boes , Jens Eisert

This system description introduces an enhancement to the Yices2 SMT solver, enabling it to reason over non-linear polynomial systems over finite fields. Our reasoning approach fits into the model-constructing satisfiability (MCSat)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Thomas Hader , Daniela Kaufmann , Ahmed Irfan , Stéphane Graham-Lengrand , Laura Kovács

We introduce an approach that aims to combine the usage of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solvers with the Combinatory Logic Synthesizer (CL)S framework. (CL)S is a tool for the automatic composition of software components from a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Fadil Kallat , Tristan Schäfer , Anna Vasileva

Given a noether algebra with a noncommutative resolution, a general construction of new noncommutative resolutions is given. As an application, it is proved that any finite length module over a regular local or polynomial ring gives rise,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Hailong Dao , Osamu Iyama , Srikanth B. Iyengar , Ryo Takahashi , Michael Wemyss , Yuji Yoshino