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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

We present HornStr, the first solver for invariant synthesis for Regular Model Checking (RMC) with the specification provided in the SMT-LIB 2.6 theory of strings. It is well-known that invariant synthesis for RMC subsumes various important…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hongjian Jiang , Anthony W. Lin , Oliver Markgraf , Philipp Rümmer , Daniel Stan

Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) specifications often rely on quantifiers to remain concise and declarative. However, checking the satisfiability of such specifications directly can be inefficient. A common optimization is to ground the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Pierre Carbonnelle

In this work, we consider the satisfiability problem in a logic that combines word equations over string variables denoting words of unbounded lengths, regular languages to which words belong and Presburger constraints on the length of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Quang Loc Le

This paper presents a framework to derive instantiation-based decision procedures for satisfiability of quantified formulas in first-order theories, including its correctness, implementation, and evaluation. Using this framework we derive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Andrew Reynolds , Tim King , Viktor Kuncak

String analysis is the problem of reasoning about how strings are manipulated by a program. It has numerous applications including automatic detection of cross-site scripting (XSS). A popular string analysis technique includes symbolic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Lukas Holik , Petr Janku , Anthony W. Lin , Philipp Rümmer , Tomas Vojnar

Artificial Intelligence problems, ranging form planning/scheduling up to game control, include an essential crucial step: describing a model which accurately defines the problem's required data, requirements, allowed transitions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Andrei Arusoaie , Ionut Pistol

Even the fastest SMT solvers have performance problems with regular expressions from real programs. Because these performance issues often arise from the problem representation (e.g. non-deterministic finite automata get determinized and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Arlen Cox , Jason Leasure

Modern SMT solvers, such as Z3, offer user-controllable strategies, enabling users to tailor solving strategies for their unique set of instances, thus dramatically enhancing solver performance for their use case. However, this approach of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Zhengyang Lu , Stefan Siemer , Piyush Jha , Joel Day , Florin Manea , Vijay Ganesh

The Test Template Framework (TTF) is a model-based testing method for the Z notation. In the TTF, test cases are generated from test specifications, which are predicates written in Z. In turn, the Z notation is based on first-order logic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Maximiliano Cristiá , Claudia Frydman

We present a general simplification of quantified SMT formulas using variable elimination. The simplification is based on an analysis of the ground terms occurring as arguments in function applications. We use this information to generate a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Aboubakr Achraf El Ghazi , Mattias Ulbrich , Mana Taghdiri , Mihai Herda

Several new algorithms for deciding emptiness of Boolean combinations of regular languages and of languages of alternating automata (AFA) have been proposed recently, especially in the context of analysing regular expressions and in string…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Tomáš Fiedor , Lukáš Holík , Martin Hruška , Adam Rogalewicz , Juraj Síč , Pavol Vargovčík

We introduce a high-level language with Python-like syntax for string-to-string, polyregular, first-order definable transductions. This language features function calls, boolean variables, and nested for-loops. We devise and implement a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Aliaume Lopez , Rafał Stefański

We consider the decision problem for quantifier-free formulas whose atoms are linear inequalities interpreted over the reals or rationals. This problem may be decided using satisfiability modulo theory (SMT), using a mixture of a SAT solver…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-23 David Monniaux

Satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) consists in testing the satisfiability of first-order formulas over linear integer or real arithmetic, or other theories. In this survey, we explain the combination of propositional satisfiability and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-16 David Monniaux

We report (to our knowledge) the first evaluation of Constraint Satisfaction as a computational framework for solving closest string problems. We show that careful consideration of symbol occurrences can provide search heuristics that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Tom Kelsey , Lars Kotthoff

This paper presents segmentation-free strategies for the recognition of handwritten numeral strings of unknown length. A synthetic dataset of touching numeral strings of sizes 2-, 3- and 4-digits was created to train end-to-end solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Andre G Hochuli , Luiz E S Oliveira , Alceu S Britto , Robert Sabourin

In this work we considerably improve the state-of-the-art SMT solving on first-order quantified problems by efficient machine learning guidance of quantifier selection. Quantifiers represent a significant challenge for SMT and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jan Jakubův , Mikoláš Janota , Jelle Piepenbrock , Josef Urban

We present new methods for solving the Satisfiability Modulo Theories problem over the theory of Quantifier-Free Non-linear Integer Arithmetic, SMT(QF-NIA), which consists in deciding the satisfiability of ground formulas with integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Cristina Borralleras , Daniel Larraz , Albert Oliveras , Enric Rodriguez-Carbonell , Albert Rubio

Although reasoning about equations over strings has been extensively studied for several decades, little research has been done for equational reasoning on general clauses over strings. This paper introduces a new superposition calculus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Dohan Kim