keep up to date with research on the satisfiability problem
The main change in 1.6.2 is the addition of the SAT backend. The first iteration of this feature was written by Patrick Spracklen as a summer student project. All constraints in the language have a SAT encoding. MiniSat and Lingeling are fully supported as backend solvers: 1.6.2 can run them, parse the solution and collect some statistics from the solver.
SAT-Race 2015 is a competitive event for solvers of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. It is organized as a satellite event to the 18th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, September 24-27, 2015, Austin, Texas, USA and stands in the tradition of the yearly SAT Competitions and SAT-Races / Challenges. In contrast to the SAT Competitions, the focus of SAT-Race is on application benchmarks only.
Kuldeep Singh Meel, a doctoral student in computer science at Rice University, has won the 2014 Outstanding Master Thesis Award presented by the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms for his thesis titled “Sampling Techniques for Boolean Satisfiability.”
The pseudo Boolean evaluation 2015 analyzes the current state of the art of pseudo Boolean solving technology to be able to determine the progress that has been made since the last evaluation. Therefore, we invite solver developers to submit the latest version of their tools. Furthermore, we will include selected solvers of the previous pseudo Boolean competition 2012.
The Constraint Reasoning and Optimization group, led by Dr. Matti Jarvisalo at the University of Helsinki, Finland, is looking for one or more talented and highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to work with us.