Lazy Decomposition for Distributed Decision Procedures

@inproceedings{Hamadi2011LazyDF,
  title={Lazy Decomposition for Distributed Decision Procedures},
  author={Youssef Hamadi and Joao Marques-Silva and Christoph M. Wintersteiger},
  booktitle={PDMC},
  year={2011}
}
The increasing popularity of automated tools for software and hardware verification puts ever increasing demands on the underlying decision procedures. This paper presents a framework for distributed decision procedures (for first-order problems) based on Craig interpolation. Formulas are distributed in a lazy fashion, i.e., without the use of costly decomposition algorithms. Potential models which are shown to be incorrect are reconciled through the use of Craig interpolants. Experimental… 
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