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Arrays are ubiquitous in the context of software verification. However, effective reasoning over arrays is still rare in CP, as local reasoning is dramatically ill-conditioned for constraints over arrays. In this paper, we propose an approach combining both global symbolic reasoning and local filtering in order to solve constraint systems involving arrays (with accesses, updates and size constraints) and finite-domain constraints over their elements and indexes. Our approach, named fdcc, is based on a combination of a congruence closure algorithm for the standard theory of arrays and a CP solver over finite domains. The tricky part of the work lies in the bi-directional communication mechanism between both solvers. We identify the significant information to share, and design ways to master the communication overhead. Experiments on random instances show that fdcc solves more formulas than any portfolio combination of the two solvers taken in isolation, while overhead is kept reasonable.
Work partially funded by ANR (grants ANR-08-SEGI-006).
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Bardin, S., Gotlieb, A. (2012). fdcc: A Combined Approach for Solving Constraints over Finite Domains and Arrays. In: Beldiceanu, N., Jussien, N., Pinson, É. (eds) Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Contraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimzation Problems. CPAIOR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29828-8_2
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