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Satisfiability Testing or How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles

Steffen H¨

• lldobler

International Center for Computational Logic Technische Universit¨ at Dresden Germany

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Table of Contents

◮ Introduction ◮ Propositional Logic and the Satisfiability Problem ◮ Planning ◮ Truth Tabling ◮ Semantic Trees ◮ The Davis-Putnam-Loveland-Logeman Method ◮ Binary Decision Diagrams ◮ Stochastic Local Search ◮ Sudoko ◮ The Competition

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◮ Hoos, St¨ utzle: Stochastic Local Search. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 2005. ◮ Kautz, Selman: Planning as Satisfiability. In: Proceedings of the European Con-

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Edinburgh University Press 1969. ◮ Scutella: A Note on Dowling and Gallier’s Top-Down Algorithm for Propositional Horn Satisfiability. Journal of Logic Programming 8, 265-273, 1990. ◮ Selman, Kautz, Cohen: Local Search Strategies for Satisfiabiliy Testing. In: John- son, Trick (eds.): Cliques, Coloring, and Satisfiability: Second DIMACS Implemen- tation Challenge, DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Com- puter Science, vol. 26, 1993.

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Links

◮ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku

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