Milan Hladík and Stefan Ratschan. Efficient solution of a class of quantified constraints with quantifier prefix exists-forall. Math. Comput. Sci., 8(3-4):329–340, 2014.
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In various applications the search for certificates for certain properties (e.g., stability of dynamical systems, program termination) can be formulated as a quantified constraint solving problem with quantifier prefix exists-forall. In this paper, we present an algorithm for solving a certain class of such problems based on interval techniques in combination with conservative linear programming approximation. In comparison with previous work, the method is more general-allowing general Boolean structure in the input constraint, and more efficient-using splitting heuristics that learn from the success of previous linear programming approximations.
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title = "Efficient solution of a class of quantified constraints with quantifier prefix exists-forall",
journal = "Math. Comput. Sci.",
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