A Hybrid Method for Finite Model Search in Equational Theories

  • Authors:
  • Belaid Benhamou;Laurent Henocque

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille, Centre de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, 39, rue Joliot Curie - 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France. e-mail: Benhamou@gyptis.univ-mrs.fr e-mail: Henocq ...;(Correspd.) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille, Centre de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, 39, rue Joliot Curie - 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France. e-mail: Benhamou@gyptis.univ-mrs.fr e- ...

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Finite model and counter model generation is a potential alternative in automated theorem proving. In this paper, we introduce a system called FMSET which generates finite structures representing models of equational theories. FMSET performs a satisfiability test over a set of special first order clauses called “simple clauses”. The algorithm's originality stems from the combination of a standard enumeration technique and the use of first order resolution. Our objective is to obtain more propagations and still achieve good space and time complexity. Several experiments over a variety of problems have been pursued. FMSET uses symmetry to prune from the search tree unwanted isomorphic branches.