Improving search space splitting for parallel SAT solving

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 336-343

  Martins, Ruben ^a   Manquinho, Vasco ^a   Lynce, Inês ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMONLY USED; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTING POWER; HYBRID APPROACH; LOAD-BALANCING; MULTIPLE MACHINE; ONE-MACHINE; PROPOSITIONAL SATISFIABILITY; SAT INSTANCES; SAT SOLVERS; SAT-SOLVING; SEARCH SPACES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC METHODS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78751516212     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2010.56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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