Optimization in SMT with LA( Q) cost functions

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-31365-3_38zbMATH Open1358.68264arXiv1202.1409OpenAlexW1824587283MaRDI QIDQ2908520FDOQ2908520

Authors: Roberto Sebastiani, Silvia Tomasi 

Publication date: 5 September 2012

Published in: Automated Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the contexts of automated reasoning and formal verification, important decision problems are effectively encoded into Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). In the last decade efficient SMT solvers have been developed for several theories of practical interest (e.g., linear arithmetic, arrays, bit-vectors). Surprisingly, very few work has been done to extend SMT to deal with optimization problems; in particular, we are not aware of any work on SMT solvers able to produce solutions which minimize cost functions over arithmetical variables. This is unfortunate, since some problems of interest require this functionality. In this paper we start filling this gap. We present and discuss two general procedures for leveraging SMT to handle the minimization of LA(Q) cost functions, combining SMT with standard minimization techniques. We have implemented the proposed approach within the MathSAT SMT solver. Due to the lack of competitors in AR and SMT domains, we experimentally evaluated our implementation against state-of-the-art tools for the domain of linear generalized disjunctive programming (LGDP), which is closest in spirit to our domain, on sets of problems which have been previously proposed as benchmarks for the latter tools. The results show that our tool is very competitive with, and often outperforms, these tools on these problems, clearly demonstrating the potential of the approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1409

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.) (68T20)

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