Small Resolution Proofs for QBF using Dependency Treewidth

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Authors	EIBEN Eduard GANIAN Robert ORDYNIAK Sebastian
Year of publication	2018
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	STACS 2018
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Informatics
Citation
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.28
Keywords	QBF; treewidth; fixed parameter tractability; dependency schemes
Description	In spite of the close connection between the evaluation of quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) and propositional satisfiability (SAT), tools and techniques which exploit structural properties of SAT instances are known to fail for QBF. This is especially true for the structural parameter treewidth, which has allowed the design of successful algorithms for SAT but cannot be straightforwardly applied to QBF since it does not take into account the interdependencies between quantified variables. In this work we introduce and develop dependency treewidth, a new structural parameter based on treewidth which allows the efficient solution of QBF instances. Dependency treewidth pushes the frontiers of tractability for QBF by overcoming the limitations of previously introduced variants of treewidth for QBF. We augment our results by developing algorithms for computing the decompositions that are required to use the parameter.
Related projects:	Highly Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems