An Evolutionary Local Search Method for Incremental Satisfiability

@inproceedings{Menai2004AnEL,
  title={An Evolutionary Local Search Method for Incremental Satisfiability},
  author={Mohamed El Bachir Menai},
  booktitle={AISC},
  year={2004}
}
Incremental satisfiability problem (ISAT) is considered as a generalisation of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). It involves checking whether satisfiability is maintained when new clauses are added to an initial satisfiable set of clauses. Since stochastic local search algorithms have been proved highly efficient for SAT, it is valuable to investigate their application to solve ISAT. Extremal Optimization is a simple heuristic local search method inspired by the dynamics of living… 
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