QuBIS: An (In)complete Solver for Quantified Boolean Formulas

  • Authors:
  • Luca Pulina;Armando Tacchella

  • Affiliations:
  • DIST, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy 16145;DIST, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy 16145

  • Venue:
  • MICAI '08 Proceedings of the 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce QuBISan (in)complete solver for quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs). The particularity of QuBISis that it is not inherently incomplete, but it has the ability to surrender upon realizing that its deduction mechanism is becoming ineffective. Whenever this happens, QuBISoutputs a partial result which can be fed to a complete QBF solver for further processing. As our experiments show, not only QuBISis competitive as an incomplete solver, but providing the output of QuBISas an input to complete solvers can boost their performances on several instances.