A scalable algorithm for minimal unsatisfiable core extraction

  • Authors:
  • Nachum Dershowitz;Ziyad Hanna;Alexander Nadel

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel;Design Technology Solutions Group, Intel Corporation, Haifa, Israel;School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • SAT'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a new algorithm for minimal unsatisfiable core extraction, based on a deeper exploration of resolution-refutation properties. We provide experimental results on formal verification benchmarks confirming that our algorithm finds smaller cores than suboptimal algorithms; and that it runs faster than those algorithms that guarantee minimality of the core. (A more complete version of this paper may be found at arXiv.org/pdf/cs.LO/0605085.)