A proof-producing boolean search engine
Clark Barrett, Sergey Berzin · 2003
We present a proof-producing search engine for solving the Boolean satis ability problem. We show how the proof-producing infrastructure can be used to track the dependency information needed to implement important optimizations found in modern SAT solvers. We also describe how the same search engine can be extended to work with decision procedures for quanti er-free rst-order logic. Initial results indicate that it is possible to extend a state-of-the-art SAT solver with proof production in a way that both preserves the algorithmic performance (e.g. the number of decisions to solve a problem) and does not incur unreasonable overhead for the proofs.