sat初学入门资料2022-12

1. GlueMiniSatPPT-nabeshima.pdf

A fast SAT solver with an aggressive acquiring strategy of glue clauses

早期求解器资料，涉及基本概念、BCP工作示意图、冲突分析蕴含图的图示。

也可以参见另一位网友整理相关基本概念的图片：https://blog.csdn.net/weixin_43791787/article/details/134269793

2. 了解SAT编码以及SAT求解器可以应用的领域

3. 基本的数字化特征的相关文献也可以从这篇文献中对应去找。

	文献：（该文献在2023年做了进一步更新） On the Structure of the Boolean Satisfiability Problem: A Survey 第6节： Based on the large body of research, the proposed structural measures related to the SAT formula are based on properties related directly to the CNF formula (e.g. [49, 65, 79, 110, 111]) or a graph encoding of it (e.g. [10, 12, 15, 44, 67, 103]). However, the success of SAT is not just restricted to the CNF formula. Today, advances in SAT have revealed the ability of modern solvers to handle formulas in the abundance of parity (xor) constraints [98]. Moreover, SAT has been successfully applied in many practical areas, including software model checking [57], knowledge-compilation [29], and bioinformatics [74], among others. 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