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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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27 * Contributors:
28 * CRIL - initial API and implementation
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30 package org.sat4j.minisat.core;
31
32 import java.io.Serializable;
33
34 /**
35 * Abstraction allowing to choose various restarts strategies.
36 *
37 * @author leberre
38 *
39 */
40 public interface RestartStrategy extends Serializable, ConflictTimer {
41
42 /**
43 * Hook method called just before the search starts.
44 *
45 * @param params
46 * the user's search parameters.
47 * @param stats
48 * some statistics about the search (number of conflicts,
49 * restarts, etc).
50 *
51 */
52 void init(SearchParams params, SolverStats stats);
53
54 /**
55 * Ask for the next restart in number of conflicts. Deprecated since 2.3.2
56 *
57 * @return the delay in conflicts before the next restart.
58 */
59 @Deprecated
60 long nextRestartNumberOfConflict();
61
62 /**
63 * Ask the strategy if the solver should restart.
64 *
65 * @return true if the solver should restart, else false.
66 */
67 boolean shouldRestart();
68
69 /**
70 * Hook method called when a restart occurs (once the solver has backtracked
71 * to top decision level).
72 *
73 */
74 void onRestart();
75
76 /**
77 * Called when the solver backjumps to the root level.
78 *
79 * @since 2.3.2
80 */
81 void onBackjumpToRootLevel();
82
83 /**
84 * Callback method called when a new clause is learned by the solver, after
85 * conflict analysis.
86 *
87 * @param learned
88 * the new clause
89 * @param trailLevel
90 * the number of literals assigned when the conflict occurred.
91 * @since 2.3.3
92 */
93 void newLearnedClause(Constr learned, int trailLevel);
94 }