Decision Procedures

Daniel Kroening is a professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Oxford; his interests include automated verification, software engineering, and programming languages. Ofer Strichman is a professor in the faculty of industrial engineering and management at the Technion; his research interests include formal verification of software and hardware, and decision procedures for fragments of first-order logic.

“This is an excellent book, which I am delighted to have the chance to review. … The text and the supporting material have been invaluable, stepping the reader through decision procedures and their combinations. … I highly recommend the book to those interested in understanding and contributing to the world of SAT and SMT solving ... .” (Rosemary Monahan, Formal Aspects of Computing, Vol. 30 (06), November, 2018)

• Introduction and Basic Concepts.- Decision Procedures for Propositional Logic.- From Propositional to Quantifier-Free Theories.- Equalities and Uninterpreted Functions.- Linear Arithmetic.- Bit Vectors.- Arrays.- Pointer Logic.- Quantified Formulas.- Deciding a Combination of Theories.- Propositional Encodings.- Applications in Software Engineering.- SMT-LIB 2.0: A Brief Tutorial.- A C++ Library for Developing Decision Procedures.