Abstract
Deciding whether a propositional formula in conjunctive normal form is satisfiable (SAT) is an NP-complete problem. The problem becomes linear when the formula contains binary clauses only. Interestingly, the reduction to SAT of a number of well-known and important problems - such as classical AI planning and automatic test pattern generation for circuits - yields formulas containing many binary clauses. In this paper we introduce and experiment with 2-SIMPLIFY, a formula simplifier targeted at such problems. 2-SIMPLIFY constructs the implication graph corresponding to the binary clauses in the formula and uses this graph to deduce new unit literals. The deduced literals are used to simplify the formula and update the graph, and so on, until stabilization. Finally, we use the graph to construct an equivalent, simpler set of binary clauses. Experimental evaluation of this simplifier on a number of bench-mark formulas produced by encoding AI planning problems prove 2-SIMPLIFY to be fast and effective.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 515-520 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
| State | Published - 1 Dec 2001 |
| Event | 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2001 - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: 4 Aug 2001 → 10 Aug 2001 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence