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Smt-Switch: A Solver-Agnostic C++ API for SMT Solving

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Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2021 (SAT 2021)

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This paper presents Smt-Switch, an open-source, solver-agnostic API for SMT solving. Smt-Switch provides simple, uniform, and high-performance access to SMT solving for applications in areas such as automated reasoning, planning, and formal verification. It defines an abstract interface, which can be implemented by different SMT solvers. The interface allows the user to create, traverse, and manipulate terms, as well as dynamically dispatch queries to various underlying SMT solvers.

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    Makai Mann, Amalee Wilson, Yoni Zohar, Lindsey Stuntz, Ahmed Irfan, Kristopher Brown, Caleb Donovick & Clark Barrett

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Mann, M. et al. (2021). Smt-Switch: A Solver-Agnostic C++ API for SMT Solving. In: Li, CM., Manyà, F. (eds) Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2021. SAT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80223-3_26

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