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CP 2014: Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming pp 514–530Cite as

Incremental QBF Solving

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Abstract

We consider the problem of incrementally solving a sequence of quantified Boolean formulae (QBF). Incremental solving aims at using information learned from one formula in the process of solving the next formulae in the sequence. Based on a general overview of the problem and related challenges, we present an approach to incremental QBF solving which is application-independent and hence applicable to QBF encodings of arbitrary problems. We implemented this approach in our incremental search-based QBF solver DepQBF and report on implementation details. Experimental results illustrate the potential benefits of incremental solving in QBF-based workflows.

Supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant S11409-N23. We would like to thank Armin Biere and Paolo Marin for helpful discussions.

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Lonsing, F., Egly, U. (2014). Incremental QBF Solving. In: O’Sullivan, B. (eds) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming. CP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8656. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10428-7_38

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