Linear quantifier elimination as an abstract decision procedure

  • Authors:
  • Nikolaj Bjørner

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • IJCAR'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper develops abstract quantifier elimination procedures for linear arithmetic over the reals and integers. They are formulated as theory solvers in the context of an abstract DPLL-based search. The resulting procedures allow the solvers to maintain integral control of the search process. We also evaluate this procedure and compare it with several alternatives. So far, the evaluation indicates that the proposed approach has some compelling advantages.