SAT 2005
Subtitle: Satisfiability Research in the Year 2005
Contributors: Enrico Giunchiglia (Editor); Toby Walsh (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781402045523
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computing and Information Technology; General Theory of Computing; Computer Science; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Computational complexity; Computer algorithms; Propositional calculus
Description: This book is devoted to recent progress made in solving propositional satisfiability and related problems. Propositional satisfiability is a powerful and general formalism used to solve a wide range of important problems including hardware and software verification. The core of many reasoning problems in automated deduction are propositional. Research into methods to automate such reasoning has therefore a long history in artificial intelligence. In 1957, Allen Newell and Herb Simon introduced the Logic Theory Machine to prove propositional theorems from Whitehead and Russel's "Principia mathematica". In 1960, Martin Davis and Hillary Putnam introduced their eponymous decision procedure for satisfiability reasoning (though, for space reasons, it was quickly superseded by the modified procedure proposed by Martin Davis, George Logemann and Donald Loveland two years later). In 1971, Stephen Cook's proof that propositional satisfiability is NP-Complete placed satisfiability as the cornerstone of complexity theory. As this volume demonstrates, research has continued very actively in this area since then. This book follows on from the highly successful volume entitled SAT 2000 published five years ago. The papers in SAT 2005 fall (not entirely neatly) into the following categories: complete methods, local and stochastic search methods, random problems, applications, and extensions beyond the propositional.