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2    * SAT4J: a SATisfiability library for Java Copyright (C) 2004, 2012 Artois University and CNRS
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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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30  package org.sat4j.tools;
31  
32  import org.sat4j.core.VecInt;
33  import org.sat4j.specs.ISolver;
34  import org.sat4j.specs.IVecInt;
35  import org.sat4j.specs.TimeoutException;
36  
37  /**
38   * The aim of this class is to compute efficiently the literals implied by the
39   * set of constraints (also called backbone or unit implicates).
40   * 
41   * The work has been done in the context of ANR BR4CP.
42   * 
43   * @author leberre
44   * 
45   */
46  public class Backbone {
47  
48      private Backbone() {
49  
50      }
51  
52      /**
53       * Computes the backbone of a formula following the algorithm described in
54       * João Marques-Silva, Mikolás Janota, Inês Lynce: On Computing Backbones of
55       * Propositional Theories. ECAI 2010: 15-20
56       * 
57       * We use Sat4j's ability to compute prime implicants instead of models to
58       * simplify the model at each step.
59       * 
60       * @param solver
61       * @return
62       * @throws TimeoutException
63       */
64      public static IVecInt compute(ISolver solver) throws TimeoutException {
65          return compute(solver, VecInt.EMPTY);
66      }
67  
68      /**
69       * Computes the backbone of a formula following the algorithm described in
70       * João Marques-Silva, Mikolás Janota, Inês Lynce: On Computing Backbones of
71       * Propositional Theories. ECAI 2010: 15-20
72       * 
73       * We use Sat4j's ability to compute prime implicants instead of models to
74       * simplify the model at each step.
75       * 
76       * @param solver
77       * @param assumptions
78       * @return
79       * @throws TimeoutException
80       */
81      public static IVecInt compute(ISolver solver, IVecInt assumptions)
82              throws TimeoutException {
83          boolean result = solver.isSatisfiable(assumptions);
84          if (!result) {
85              return VecInt.EMPTY;
86          }
87          return compute(solver, solver.primeImplicant(), assumptions);
88  
89      }
90  
91      public static IVecInt compute(ISolver solver, int[] implicant)
92              throws TimeoutException {
93          return compute(solver, implicant, VecInt.EMPTY);
94      }
95  
96      public static IVecInt compute(ISolver solver, int[] implicant,
97              IVecInt assumptions) throws TimeoutException {
98          IVecInt litsToTest = new VecInt();
99          for (int p : implicant) {
100             if (!assumptions.contains(p)) {
101                 litsToTest.push(-p);
102             }
103         }
104         IVecInt candidates = new VecInt();
105         assumptions.copyTo(candidates);
106         int p;
107         while (!litsToTest.isEmpty()) {
108             p = litsToTest.last();
109             candidates.push(p);
110             litsToTest.pop();
111             if (solver.isSatisfiable(candidates)) {
112                 candidates.pop();
113                 implicant = solver.primeImplicant();
114                 removeVarNotPresentAndSatisfiedLits(implicant, litsToTest,
115                         solver.nVars());
116             } else {
117                 candidates.pop().push(-p);
118             }
119         }
120         return candidates;
121     }
122 
123     private static void removeVarNotPresentAndSatisfiedLits(int[] implicant,
124             IVecInt litsToTest, int n) {
125         int[] marks = new int[n + 1];
126         for (int p : implicant) {
127             marks[p > 0 ? p : -p] = p;
128         }
129         int q, mark;
130         for (int i = 0; i < litsToTest.size();) {
131             q = litsToTest.get(i);
132             mark = marks[q > 0 ? q : -q];
133             if (mark == 0 || mark == q) {
134                 litsToTest.delete(i);
135             } else {
136                 i++;
137             }
138         }
139     }
140 }