Applying GSAT to non-clausal formulas

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Sebastiani

  • Affiliations:
  • Mechanized Reasoning Group, DIST, Genova, Italy and IRST, Trento, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

In this paper we describe how to modify GSAT so that it can be applied to nonclausal formulas. The idea is to use a particular "score" function which gives the number of clauses of the CNF conversion of a formula which are false under a given truth assignment. Its value is computed in linear time, without constructing the CNF conversion itself. The proposed methodology applies to most of the variants of GSAT proposed so far.