Logic programming with satisfiability

Michael Codish, Vitaly Lagoon, Peter J. Stuckey

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Abstract

This paper presents a Prolog interface to the MiniSat satisfiability solver. Logic programming with satisfiability combines the strengths of the two paradigms: logic programming for encoding search problems into satisfiability on the one hand and efficient SAT solving on the other. This synergy between these two exposes a programming paradigm that we propose here as a logic programming pearl. To illustrate logic programming with SAT solving, we give an example Prolog program that solves instances of Partial MAXSAT.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)121-128
Number of pages8
JournalTheory and Practice of Logic Programming
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2008

Keywords

  • Boolean satisfiability
  • Propositional logic
  • SAT solvers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence

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