Recursive Online Enumeration of All Minimal Unsatisfiable Subsets

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01090-4_9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01090-4_9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01090-4_9" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-01090-4_9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Recursive Online Enumeration of All Minimal Unsatisfiable Subsets

Original language description

In various areas of computer science, we deal with a set of constraints to be satisfied. If the constraints cannot be satisfied simultaneously, it is desirable to identify the core problems among them. Such cores are called minimal unsatisfiable subsets (MUSes). The more MUSes are identified, the more information about the conflicts among the constraints is obtained. However, a full enumeration of all MUSes is in general intractable due to the large number (even exponential) of possible conflicts. Moreover, to identify MUSes, algorithms have to test sets of constraints for their simultaneous satisfiability. The type of the test depends on the application domains. The complexity of the tests can be extremely high especially for domains like temporal logics, model checking, or SMT. In this paper, we propose a recursive algorithm that identifies MUSes in an online manner (i.e., one by one) and can be terminated at any time. The key feature of our algorithm is that it minimises the number of satisfiability tests and thus speeds up the computation. The algorithm is applicable to an arbitrary constraint domain and proves to be efficient especially in domains with expensive satisfiability checks. We benchmark our algorithm against the state-of-the-art algorithm Marco on the Boolean and SMT constraint domains and demonstrate that our algorithm really requires less satisfiability tests and consequently finds more MUSes in the given time limits.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-00178S" target="_blank" >GA18-00178S: Discrete Bifurcation Analysis of Reactive Systems</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis - 16th International Symposium, {ATVA} 2018, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 7-10, 2018, Proceedings}

ISBN

9783030010898

ISSN

0302-9743

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

143-159

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Los Angeles

Event location

Los Angeles

Event date

Jan 1, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000723531300009