Monday, 10 May 2004
08:00-09:00 | Breakfast (provided @ Foyer) Registration |
09:00-09:20 | Opening |
09:20-10:10 | Session 1 [Hard instances]
• A Random Constraint Satisfaction Problem That Seems Hard
for DPLL • From Spin Glasses to Hard Satisfiable Formulas |
10:10-10:50 | Coffee Break |
10:50-12:30 | Session 2 [SAT Solvers]
• Combining Component Caching and Clause Learning for
Effective Model Counting • Early Conflict Detection Based BCP for SAT Solving • UBCSAT: An Implementation and Experimentation
Environment for SLS Algorithms for SAT & MAX-SAT • CirCUs: A Hybrid Satisfiability Solver |
12:30-14:20 | Lunch (provided @ Vistas 19th Floor) |
14:20-15:20 | Invited Talk The Behavior of SAT Solvers in Model Checking Application Ken McMillan, Cadence Berkeley Labs |
15:20-15:50 | Coffee Break (registration) |
15:50-16:40 | Session 3 [Algorithms & Bounds
I] • Computing Unsatisfiable k-SAT Instances with Few Occurrences per Variable • Algorithms for Satisfiability using Independent Sets
of Variables |
16:40-18:00 | SAT Solvers Competition & QBF Solvers Evaluation
Competitions and results presented by Daniel Le Berre and Armando Tacchella Panel discussion - panelists: Dave Tompkins, Armin Biere, João Marques Silva, Enrico Giunchiglia, Laurent Simon |
Tuesday, 11 May 2004
08:00-09:00 | Breakfast (provided @ Foyer) Registration |
09:00 - 10:15 | Session 4 [Algorithms & Bounds
II] • Derandomization of Schuler's Algorithm
for SAT • Polynomial Time SAT Decision, Hypergraph Transversals
and the Hermitian Rank
• Approximation Algorithm for Random MAX-kSAT |
10:15-10:50 | Coffee Break (registration) |
10:50-12:30 | Session 5 [Properties of
Formulae / Non-Boolean Problems] • Detecting
Backdoor Sets with Respect to Horn and Binary Clauses • A Note on Satisfying Truth-Value Assignments of
Boolean Formulas • Mapping Problems with Finite-Domain Variables into
Problems with Boolean Variables • Using Lower-Bound Estimates in SAT-Based
Pseudo-Boolean Optimization |
12:30-14:20 | Lunch (provided @ Vistas 19th Floor) |
14:20-15:20 | Poster Overview Session I
• Worst Case Bounds for some NP-Complete Modified Horn-SAT
Problems • Satisfiability Threshold of the Skewed Random k-SAT • Local Search for Very Large SAT Problems • Local Search with Bootstrapping • Efficient Implementations of SAT Local Search • Adding a New Conflict Based Branching Heuristic in
two Evolved DPLL SAT Solvers • Using Rewarding Mechanisms for Improving Branching
Heuristics • On Computing Minimum Unsatisfiable Cores • Visualizing the Internal Structure of SAT Instances |
15:20-16:20 | Poster Session I (coffee provided) |
16:20-18:00 | Session 6 [Non-CNF SAT
I]
• Using DPLL for Efficient OBDD Construction • Search vs. Symbolic Techniques in Satisfiability
Solving • Solving Non-clausal Formulas with DPLL search • Automatic Extraction of Functional Dependencies |
Wednesday, 12 May 2004
08:00-09:00 | Breakfast (provided @ Foyer) Registration |
09:00-10:15 | Invited Talk From Satisfiability to Proof Complexity and Bounded Arithmetic Stephen Cook, University of Toronto |
10:15-10:50 | Coffee Break (registration) |
10:50-12:30 | Session 7 [Non-CNF SAT II]
• A SAT-based Decision Procedure for the Boolean
Combination of Difference Constraints • Aligning CNF- and Equivalence-reasoning • An Algebraic Approach to the Complexity of Generalized
Conjunctive Queries • A SAT Based Scheduler for Tournament Schedules |
12:30-14:30 | Lunch (provided @ Vistas 19th Floor) |
14:30-00:30 | Excursion and Banquet 14:30 Group Leaves Hotel for Aquarium (by foot – meet in Foyer) 17:30 Bus Leaves Aquarium for Banquet 17:30 Bus Leaves Hotel for Banquet 19:30 Banquet Starts (Grouse Mountain) ~23:15 Skyride Leaves Mountain Top ~23:45 Skyride Leaves Mountain Top |
Thursday, 13 May 2004
08:00-09:25 | Breakfast (provided @ Foyer) - note changed time! Registration |
09:25-10:15 | Session 8 [Bounded Model
Checking] - note changed time!
• Incremental Compilation-to-SAT Procedures • Analysis of Search Based Algorithms for Satisfiability
of Quantified Boolean Formulas Arising from Circuit State Space Diameter
Problems |
10:15-10:50 | Coffee Break (registration) |
10:50-12:30 | Session 9 [QBF] •
Looking Algebraically at Tractable Quantified Boolean
Formulas • Equivalence Models for Quantified Boolean Formulas • Encoding Global Unobservability
for Efficient Translation to SAT • Resolve and Expand • QBF Reasoning on Real-World Instances |
12:30-14:20 | Lunch (provided @ Vistas 19th Floor) |
14:20-15:20 | Poster Overview Session II
• A Comparative Study of 2QBF Algorithms • Dealing with Symmetries in Quantified Boolean
Formulas • Improving First-order Model Searching by
Propositional Reasoning and Lemma Learning • Boolean Ring Satisfiability • Game-SAT: A Preliminary Report • Verifying the On-Line Help System of SIEMENS Magnetic
Resonance Tomographs • NiVER: Non Increasing Variable Elimination Resolution
for Preprocessing SAT instances • The Optimality of a Fast CNF Conversion and its Use
with SAT • Full CNF Encoding: The Counting Constraints Case |
15:20-16:20 | Poster Session II (coffee provided) |