Logic programming with satisfiability

  • Authors:
  • Michael Codish;Vitaly Lagoon;Peter j. Stuckey

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of computer science, ben-gurion university, be'er sheva, israel (email: mcodish@cs.bgu.ac.il);Department of computer science & software engineering, university of melbourne, melbourne, australia (email: vitaly.lagoon@gmail.com);Nicta victoria laboratory and department of computer science & software engineering, university of melbourne, melbourne, australia (email: pjs@csse.unimelb.edu.au)

  • Venue:
  • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2008

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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.