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2   * SAT4J: a SATisfiability library for Java Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Daniel Le Berre
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19  * Based on the original MiniSat specification from:
20  * 
21  * An extensible SAT solver. Niklas Een and Niklas Sorensson. Proceedings of the
22  * Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
23  * Testing, LNCS 2919, pp 502-518, 2003.
24  *
25  * See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
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28  package org.sat4j.minisat.core;
29  
30  import org.sat4j.specs.IConstr;
31  import org.sat4j.specs.IVecInt;
32  
33  /*
34   * Created on 16 oct. 2003
35   */
36  
37  /**
38   * Basic constraint abstraction used in Solver.
39   * 
40   * Any new constraint type should implement that interface.
41   * 
42   * @author leberre
43   */
44  public interface Constr extends Propagatable, IConstr {
45  
46      /**
47       * Remove a constraint from the solver.
48       * 
49       */
50      void remove();
51  
52      /**
53       * Simplifies a constraint, by removing top level falsified literals for
54       * instance.
55       * 
56       * @return true iff the constraint is satisfied.
57       */
58      boolean simplify();
59  
60      /**
61       * Compute the reason for a given assignment.
62       * 
63       * If the constraint is a clause, it is supposed to be either a unit clause
64       * or a falsified one.
65       * 
66       * @param p
67       *            a satisfied literal (or Lit.UNDEFINED)
68       * @param outReason
69       *            the list of falsified literals whose negation is the reason of
70       *            the assignment of p to true.
71       */
72      void calcReason(int p, IVecInt outReason);
73  
74      /**
75       * Increase the constraint activity.
76       * 
77       * @param claInc
78       *            the value to increase the activity with
79       */
80      void incActivity(double claInc);
81  
82      /**
83       * To obtain the activity of the constraint.
84       * 
85       * @return the activity of the clause.
86       */
87      double getActivity();
88  
89      /**
90       * Indicate wether a constraint is responsible from an assignment.
91       * 
92       * @return true if a constraint is a "reason" for an assignment.
93       */
94      boolean locked();
95  
96      /**
97       * Mark a constraint as learnt.
98       */
99  
100     void setLearnt();
101 
102     /**
103      * Register the constraint to the solver.
104      */
105     void register();
106 
107     /**
108      * Rescale the clause activity by a value.
109      * 
110      * @param d
111      *            the value to rescale the clause activity with.
112      */
113     void rescaleBy(double d);
114 
115     /**
116      * Method called when the constraint is to be asserted. It means that the
117      * constraint was learnt during the search and it should now propagate some
118      * truth values. In the clausal case, only one literal should be propagated.
119      * In other cases, it might be different.
120      * 
121      * @param s
122      *            a UnitPropagationListener to use for unit propagation.
123      */
124     void assertConstraint(UnitPropagationListener s);
125 }