Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing 8th International

The 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satis?ability Testing(SAT2005)providedaninternationalforumforthemostrecentresearch on the satis?ablity problem (SAT). SAT is the classic problem of determining whether or not a propositional f

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Fahiem Bacchus Toby Walsh (Eds.)

Theory andApplications of Satisfiability Testing 8th International Conference, SAT 2005 St Andrews, UK, June 19-23, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Fahiem Bacchus University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science 6 King’s College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H5, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Toby Walsh National ICT Australia and University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering Sydney 2502, Australia E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

The 8th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT 2005) provided an international forum for the most recent research on the satisfiablity problem (SAT). SAT is the classic problem of determining whether or not a propositional formula has a satisfying truth assignment. It was the first problem shown by Cook to be NP-complete. Despite its seemingly specialized nature, satisfiability testing has proved to extremely useful in a wide range of different disciplines, both from a practical as well as from a theoretical point of view. For example, work on SAT