An Efficient Nelson-Oppen Decision Procedure for Difference Constraints over Rationals

  • Authors:
  • Shuvendu K. Lahiri;Madanlal Musuvathi

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Nelson and Oppen provided a methodology for modularly combining decision procedures for individual theories to construct a decision procedure for a combination of theories. In addition to providing a check for satisfiability, the individual decision procedures need to provide additional functionalities, including equality generation. In this paper, we propose a decision procedure for a conjunction of difference constraints over rationals (where the atomic formulas are of the form x=