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Complete Boolean Satisfiability Solving Algorithms Based on Local Search

Wen-Sheng Guo1 (郭文生), Member, CCF, ACM, Guo-Wu Yang (杨国武)1, Member, CCF, ACM William N. N. Hung2, Senior Member, IEEE, and Xiaoyu Song3, Senior Member, IEEE   

  1. 1 School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu 611731, China;
    2 Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, California 94043, U.S.A.;
    3 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland State University, Portland 97207, U.S.A.
  • Received:2012-04-24 Revised:2012-11-01 Online:2013-03-05 Published:2013-03-05
  • Supported by:

    This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 60973016, 61272175, and the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant No. 2010CB328004.

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) is a well-known problem in computer science, artificial intelligence, and operations research. This paper focuses on the satisfiability problem ofModel RB structure that is similar to graph coloring problems and others. We propose a translation method and three effective complete SAT solving algorithms based on the characterization of Model RB structure. We translate clauses into a graph with exclusive sets and relative sets. In order to reduce search depth, we determine search order using vertex weights and clique in the graph. The results show that our algorithms are much more effective than the best SAT solvers in numerous Model RB benchmarks, especially in those large benchmark instances.

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