Handbook of Parallel Constraint Reasoning

by Youssef Hamadi (Editor), Lakhdar Sais (Editor)

Overview

This is the first book presenting a broad overview of parallelism in constraint-based reasoning formalisms. In recent years, an increasing number of contributions have been made on scaling constraint reasoning thanks to parallel architectures. The goal in this book is to overview these achievements in a concise way, assuming the reader is familiar with the classical, sequential background. It presents work demonstrating the use of multiple resources from single machine multi-core and GPU-based computations to very large scale distributed execution platforms up to 80,000 processing units.

The contributions in the book cover the most important and recent contributions in parallel propositional satisfiability (SAT), maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT), quantified Boolean formulas (QBF), satisfiability modulo theory (SMT), theorem proving (TP), answer set programming (ASP), mixed integer linear programming (MILP), constraint programming (CP), shastic local search (SLS), optimal path finding with A*, model checking for linear-time temporal logic (MC/LTL), binary decision diagrams (BDD), and model-based diagnosis (MBD).

The book is suitable for researchers, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and practitioners who wish to learn about the state of the art in parallel constraint reasoning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030096946
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2019
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Pages:	677
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part I, Theory and Algorithms.- Parallel Satisfiability.- Cube-and-Conquer for Satisfiability.- Parallel Maximum Satisfiability.- Parallel Solving of Quantified Boolean Formulas.- Parallel Satisfiability Modulo Theories.- Parallel Theorem Proving.- Parallel Answer Set Programming.- Parallel Solvers for Mixed Integer Linear Optimization.- Parallel Constraint Programming.- Parallel Local Search.- Parallel A* for State-Space Search.- Parallel Model Checking Algorithms for Linear-Time Temporal Logic.- Multi-core Decision Diagrams.- Parallel Model-Based Diagnosis.- Part II, Tools and Applications.- Selection and Configuration of Parallel Portfolios.- An Application of Parallel Satisfiability Solving to the Verification of Complex Embedded Systems.- Parallel Constraint-Based Local Search: An Application to Designing Resilient Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks.