Buch, Englisch, Band 329, 226 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, Band 329, 226 Seiten
Reihe: Dissertations in Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: 978-1-60750-545-7
Verlag: IOS Press
The goal of this work is to support effective use of quantification by examining close relationships between formula structure and quantifier expressiveness. Useful subclasses with lower complexity are considered, in particular quantified Horn formulas and interesting generalizations thereof. From a theoretical and a practical point of view, this work presents efficient formula transformations and a pre-processing approach which allows the elimination of weak quantifiers from given QBF formulas in order to improve the performance of QBF solvers.