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Lazy algorithms for Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) combine a generic DPLL-based SAT engine with a theory solver for the given theory T that can decide the T-consistency of conjunctions of ground literals. For many theories of interest, theory solvers need to reason by performing internal case splits. Here we argue that it is more convenient to delegate these case splits to the DPLL engine instead. The delegation can be done on demand for solvers that can encode their internal case splits into one or more clauses, possibly including new constants and literals. This results in drastically simpler theory solvers. We present this idea in an improved version of DPLL(T), a general SMT architecture for the lazy approach, and formalize and prove it correct in an extension of Abstract DPLL Modulo Theories, a framework for modeling and reasoning about lazy algorithms for SMT. A remarkable additional feature of the architecture, also discussed in the paper, is that it naturally includes an efficient Nelson-Oppen-like combination of multiple theories and their solvers.
Partially supported by Spanish Ministry of Education and Science through the LogicTools project TIN2004-03382 (Nieuwenhuis and Oliveras), FPU grant AP2002-3533 (Oliveras), and by NSF grant 0237422 (Tinelli).
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Barrett, C., Nieuwenhuis, R., Oliveras, A., Tinelli, C. (2006). Splitting on Demand in SAT Modulo Theories. In: Hermann, M., Voronkov, A. (eds) Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning. LPAR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11916277_35
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