cmMUS: a tool for circumscription-based MUS membership testing

  • Authors:
  • Mikoláš Janota;Joao Marques-Silva

  • Affiliations:
  • INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal;University College Dublin, Ireland and INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • LPNMR'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This article presents cmMUS--a tool for deciding whether a clause belongs to some minimal unsatisfiable subset (MUS) of a given formula. While MUS-membership has a number of practical applications, related with understanding the causes of unsatisfiability, it is computationally challenging--it is Σ2P-complete. The presented tool cmMUS solves the problem by translating it to propositional circumscription, a well-known problem from the area of nonmonotonic reasoning. The tool constantly outperforms other approaches to the problem, which is demonstrated on a variety of benchmarks.