Booleguru, the Propositional Polyglot (Short Paper)

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Abstract

Recent approaches on verification and reasoning solve SAT and QBF encodings using state-of-the-art SMT solvers, as it "makes implementation much easier". The ease-of-use of these solvers make SAT and QBF solvers less visible to users of solvers---who are maybe from different research communities---potentially not exploiting the power of state-of-the-art tools. In this work, we motivate the need to build bridges over the widening solver-gap and introduce Booleguru, a tool to convert between formats for logic formulas. It makes SAT and QBF solvers more accessible by using techniques known from SMT solvers, such as advanced Python interfaces like Z3Py and easily generatable languages like SMT-LIB, integrating them to our conversion tool. We then introduce a language to manipulate and combine multiple formulas, optionally applying transformations for quickly prototyping encodings. Booleguru's advanced scripting capabilities form a programming environment specialized for Boolean logic, offering a more efficient way to develop novel problem encodings.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomated Reasoning, 12th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2024
EditorsChristoph Benzmüller, Marijn J. H. Heule, Renate A. Schmidt
PublisherSpringer
Pages315-324
Number of pages10
VolumeLNAI 14739
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-63497-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14739 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Fields of science

  • 101013 Mathematical logic
  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102001 Artificial intelligence
  • 102011 Formal languages
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102030 Semantic technologies
  • 102031 Theoretical computer science
  • 603109 Logic

JKU Focus areas

  • Digital Transformation

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