A survey on applications of quantified Boolean formulas

A Shukla, A Biere, L Pulina… - 2019 IEEE 31st …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The decision problem of quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs) is the archetypical problem for
the complexity class PSPACE. Beside such theoretical aspects QBF also provides an …

Quantified boolean formulas

O Beyersdorff, M Janota, F Lonsing… - Handbook of …, 2021 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Solvers for quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) have become powerful tools for tackling hard
computational problems from various application domains, even beyond the scope of SAT …

Taming high treewidth with abstraction, nested dynamic programming, and database technology

M Hecher, P Thier, S Woltran - … of Satisfiability Testing–SAT 2020: 23rd …, 2020 - Springer
Treewidth is one of the most prominent structural parameters. While numerous theoretical
results establish tractability under the assumption of fixed treewidth, the practical success of …

Clausal abstraction for DQBF

L Tentrup, MN Rabe - Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing …, 2019 - Springer
Dependency quantified Boolean formulas (DQBF) is a logic admitting existential
quantification over Boolean functions, which allows us to elegantly state synthesis problems …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding the relative strength of QBF CDCL solvers and QBF resolution

O Beyersdorff, B Böhm - Logical Methods in Computer …, 2023 - lmcs.episciences.org
QBF solvers implementing the QCDCL paradigm are powerful algorithms that successfully
tackle many computationally complex applications. However, our theoretical understanding …

CAQE and quabs: Abstraction based QBF solvers

L Tentrup - Journal on Satisfiability, Boolean Modeling and …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
We present a detailed description, analysis, and evaluation of the clausal abstraction
approach for solving quantified Boolean formulas (QBF). The clausal abstraction algorithm …

Qbffam: A tool for generating QBF families from proof complexity

O Beyersdorff, L Pulina, M Seidl, A Shukla - International Conference on …, 2021 - Springer
We present QBFFam, a tool for the generation of formula families originating from the field of
proof complexity. Such formula families are used to investigate the strength of proof systems …

Lower bounds for QCDCL via formula gauge

B Böhm, O Beyersdorff - Journal of Automated Reasoning, 2023 - Springer
QCDCL is one of the main algorithmic paradigms for solving quantified Boolean formulas
(QBF). We design a new technique to show lower bounds for the running time in QCDCL …

Hardness characterisations and size-width lower bounds for QBF resolution

O Beyersdorff, J Blinkhorn, M Mahajan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We provide a tight characterisation of proof size in resolution for quantified Boolean formulas
(QBF) via circuit complexity. Such a characterisation was previously obtained for a hierarchy …

Quantified CDCL with universal resolution

F Slivovsky - 25th International Conference on Theory and …, 2022 - drops.dagstuhl.de
Abstract Quantified Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (QCDCL) solvers for QBF generate Q-
resolution proofs. Pivot variables in Q-resolution must be existentially quantified. Allowing …