Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing

This book is devoted to the 6th International Conference on Theory and - plications of Satis?ability Testing (SAT 2003) held in Santa Margherita Ligure (Genoa,Italy), during May5 8,2003. SAT 2003followedthe WorkshopsonS- is?ability held in Siena (1996), Paderborn (1998), and Renesse (2000), and the Workshop on Theory and Applications of Satis?ability Testing held in Boston (2001) and in Cincinnati (2002). As in the last edition, the SAT event hosted a SAT solvers competition, and, starting from the 2003 edition, also a Quanti?ed Boolean Formulas (QBFs) solvers comparative evaluation. There were 67 submissions of high quality, authored by researchers from all over the world. All the submissions were thoroughly evaluated, and as a result 42 were selected for oral presentations, and 16 for a poster presentation. The presentations covered the whole spectrum of research in propositional and QBF satis?ability testing, including proof systems, search techniques, probabilistic analysis of algorithms and their properties, problem encodings, industrial app- cations, speci?c tools, case studies and empirical results. Further, the program was enriched by three invited talks, given by Riccardo Zecchina (on Survey Propagation: from Analytic Results on Random k-SAT to a Message-Passing - gorithm for Satis?ability ), Toby Walsh (on Challenges in SAT (and QBF) ) and Wolfgang Kunz (on ATPG Versus SAT: Comparing Two Paradigms for Boolean Reasoning ). SAT 2003 thus provided a unique forum for the presen- tion and discussion of research related to the theory and applications of pro- sitional and QBF satis?ability testing.

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Inhalt
Satisfiability and Computing van der Waerden Numbers.- An Algorithm for SAT Above the Threshold.- Watched Data Structures for QBF Solvers.- How Good Can a Resolution Based SAT-solver Be?.- A Local Search SAT Solver Using an Effective Switching Strategy and an Efficient Unit Propagation.- Density Condensation of Boolean Formulas.- SAT Based Predicate Abstraction for Hardware Verification.- On Boolean Models for Quantified Boolean Horn Formulas.- Local Search on SAT-encoded Colouring Problems.- A Study of Pure Random Walk on Random Satisfiability Problems with Physical Methods.- Hidden Threshold Phenomena for Fixed-Density SAT-formulae.- Improving a Probabilistic 3-SAT Algorithm by Dynamic Search and Independent Clause Pairs.- Width-Based Algorithms for SAT and CIRCUIT-SAT.- Linear Time Algorithms for Some Not-All-Equal Satisfiability Problems.- On Fixed-Parameter Tractable Parameterizations of SAT.- On the Probabilistic Approach to the Random Satisfiability Problem.- Comparing Different Prenexing Strategies for Quantified Boolean Formulas.- Solving Error Correction for Large Data Sets by Means of a SAT Solver.- Using Problem Structure for Efficient Clause Learning.- Abstraction-Driven SAT-based Analysis of Security Protocols.- A Case for Efficient Solution Enumeration.- Cache Performance of SAT Solvers: a Case Study for Efficient Implementation of Algorithms.- Local Consistencies in SAT.- Guiding SAT Diagnosis with Tree Decompositions.- On Computing k-CNF Formula Properties.- Effective Preprocessing with Hyper-Resolution and Equality Reduction.- Read-Once Unit Resolution.- The Interaction Between Inference and Branching Heuristics.- Hypergraph Reductions and Satisfiability Problems.- SBSAT: a State-Based, BDD-Based Satisfiability Solver.- Computing VertexEccentricity in Exponentially Large Graphs: QBF Formulation and Solution.- The Combinatorics of Conflicts between Clauses.- Conflict-Based Selection of Branching Rules.- The Essentials of the SAT 2003 Competition.- Challenges in the QBF Arena: the SAT'03 Evaluation of QBF Solvers.- kcnfs: An Efficient Solver for Random k-SAT Formulae.- An Extensible SAT-solver.- Survey and Belief Propagation on Random K-SAT.