Do Portfolio Solvers Harm?

6 pages•Published: November 8, 2017

Abstract

I discuss the question whether portfolio solvers support advances in automated reasoning.
A portfolio solver is the combination of a collection of core solvers.
I distinguish syntactic combinations from semantic combinations and argue
that the former are useful for competitions where the latter foster
progress in automated reasoning.

Keyphrases: first order, portfolio, sat, solver, theorem prover

In: Giles Reger and Dmitriy Traytel (editors). ARCADE 2017. 1st International Workshop on Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary Achievements, vol 51, pages 76-81.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/sXjZ
	https://doi.org/10.29007/vpxm

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{ARCADE2017:Do_Portfolio_Solvers_Harm?,
  author    = {Christoph Weidenbach},
  title     = {Do Portfolio Solvers Harm?},
  booktitle = {ARCADE 2017. 1st International Workshop on Automated Reasoning: Challenges, Applications, Directions, Exemplary Achievements},
  editor    = {Giles Reger and Dmitriy Traytel},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {51},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/sXjZ},
  doi       = {10.29007/vpxm},
  pages     = {76-81},
  year      = {2017}}

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