PSAT Files

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psat-minisat 1.2
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psat-minisat is the successor or PsatColGen, which decides the Probabilistic 
Satisfiability problem (PSAT) through a turing reduction to the Satisfiability 
test (SAT). This implementation employs minisat as the SAT solver.

Given a PSAT instance in normal form as input, the program returns
with a solution, if there is one. The implemented method is an
adaptation from the Simplex Algorithm with Column Generation.
At each iteration, a SAT instance is generated and a SAT Solver
(minisat) decides its satisfiability. Details about PSAT, its normal 
form and this turing reduction can be found in the paper
"PSAT.pdf" (Sections 2 and 4) that comes with this package.

Copying conditions about psat-minisat can be found in the 'COPYING' file.

To contact the author: marcelo.finger@gmail.com

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Installation
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You must have in your computer the compilers gcc, g++ and the LAPACK and
BLAS libraries.  Currently, in the Ubuntu distribution those libraries
come in the package "liblapack-dev" and its dependencies; the
documentation packages are: liblapack-doc, libblas-doc.  However,
these software libraries are freely-available, with their own copying
conditions.  Information about how to download and install these
libraries under linux can be found at
"http://seehuhn.de/pages/linear#installation".

To compile the psat-minisat, all you have to do is type, at the
directory where all source files have been placed, 

$ make

Unlike PsatColGen, to run psat-minisat, you not need to install the minisat SAT 
solver, as it is included in the code. 

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Using psat-minisat
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To use psat-minisat from its folder under linux, just type:

$ ./psat-minisat <FILENAME>

The <FILENAME> must describe a PSAT instance in the atomic
normal form, which is defined in Section 2 of the paper "PSAT.pdf".
The input format is an adaptation from DIMACS format, to include
a probability assignment. For example:

c This is a comment
p pcnf 3 4 2 2
a 1 0.54
a 2 0.46
1 2 0
-1 3 0
1 2 -3 0
1 -2 3 0

 - The file can start with comments, that is lines beginning
with the character 'c'. Right after the comments, there is the
line "p pcnf nvar nclauses nprobabilities nbits" indicating that 
the instance is in PCNF format; nbvar is the number of a variables
appearing in the file; nbclauses is the exact number of clauses
contained in the file; nprobabilities is the number of atoms with
an assigned probability; and ndec is the number of decimal 
used to specify the assigned probabilities.
 - Then the probability assignment is specified. Each assigned 
probability is in one line starting with the character 'a'. Then 
an integer between 1 and nprobabilities indicates which variable the 
probability is assigned to. Finally, a number in the interval [0,1]
represents the probabilty to be assigned.
 - Then the clauses follow. Each clause is a sequence of distinct
non-null numbers between -nbvar and nbvar ending with 0 on the same
line. Positive numbers denote the corresponding variables. Negative
numbers denote the negations of the corresponding variables.