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Satisfiability Checking
Schedule WS 12/13
Prerequisites:
SWS:
V3 + ワ1
Lecture times:
Monday 15:30 - 17:00 (room 5056) (V2)
Thursday 10:00 - 11:30 (room 5056) (V1 + ワ1)
Start:
October 08, 2012
Language:
English or German (depending on the students' preferences)
Exam:
written or oral, to be announced
ECTS credits:
6
News and materials can be found in the corresponding L2P learning room. For additional information see also the Campus page. During the semester we record the lecture and work out lecture notes. Both the videos and the notes will be made available in the L2P room. For possible exam combinations with other lectures see here.
Motivation
Different approaches in computer science involve tools (solvers) to check if certain formulas are satisfiable. Examples can be found in the fields of hardware and software verification, counterexample generation, termination analysis of programs, and optimization algorithms.
In this lecture we deal with the automatic check of satisfiability for different logics. Formulas of propositional logic can be checked for satisfiability using SAT-solvers (SAT=''satisfiability''). Extending the logic with different theories leads us to SMT-solvers (SMT=''satisfiability modulo theories''). To demonstrate practical relevance, we employ the above methods in the context of bounded model checking.
Prerequisites
This course can be attended by bachelor students (as Wahlpflicht in theoretical computer science) as well as by master/diploma students.
Basic knowledge about algorithms is required.
Materials
For learning you can use the book
Decision Procedures: An Algorithmic Point of View
by Daniel Kroening and Ofer Strichman
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2008
which is available in the computer science library, the lecture slides, the lecture notes, and the video recordings of the lecture that will be made available in the L2P learning room.
Lecture Content
The slides of the last lecture (WS 11/12):
Nr.
Theme
Slides
6.
Linear real algebra
7.
Presburger arithmetic
8.
Applications
9.
Nonlinear real arithmetic
Evaluations