Introducing Autarkies for DQCNF

Oliver Kullmann, Ankit Shukla

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Abstract

Autarkies for SAT can be used for theoretical studies, preprocessing and inprocessing. They generalise satisfying assignments by allowing to leave some clauses \untouched" (no variable assigned). We introduce the natural generalisation to DQCNF (dependency-quantified boolean CNF), with the perspective of SAT translations for special cases. Finding an autarky for DQCNF is as hard as finding a satisfying assignment. Fortunately there are (many) natural autarky-systems, which allow restricting the range of autarkies to a more feasible domain, while still maintaining the good general properties of arbitrary autarkies. We discuss what seems the most fundamental autarky systems, and how the related reductions can be found by SAT solvers.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Workshop on Quantified Boolean Formulas and Beyond
Number of pages5
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102001 Artificial intelligence
  • 102011 Formal languages
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102031 Theoretical computer science
  • 603109 Logic
  • 202006 Computer hardware

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