Tableau Instructions

The ``sat pack'' also includes a systematic solver (DPLL) called ``tableau.'' For reasons that I totally don't understand, it takes a slightly different format from walksat. I put together a simple front-end to tableau that I think will work for converting a formula on the fly and then feeding it to tableau.

$dir/bin/i86pc/tableausat < $dir/wffs/sat.200.cnf

Output:

positive literals:
   1    6    7    8   12   13   15   16   18   19   21   25   29   30   31   32
  34   38   43   44   46   47   48   50   51   53   59   60   61   62   63   65
  72   73   74   79   81   82   87   88   90   91   95   96   97  100  102  104
 107  109  112  115  116  117  119  120  121  125  129  130  131  134  137  139
 142  143  145  146  149  151  157  158  159  160  164  165  166  170  173  174
 175  176  179  181  182  183  186  188  189  191  193  198  199 
% end of literals
good model

This means that it finds a good model (satisfying assignment) consisting of all variables value *except* those listed. It takes longer than walksat for this example.

Of course, tableau can do something that walksat can't:

$dir/bin/i86pc/tableausat < $dir/wffs/unsat.200.cnf

Now, it terminates without saying ``good model,'' meaning that there is no satisfying assignment (as opposed to walksat simply not finding one).


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