Satisfiability: where Theory meets Practice∗

Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) is a keystone in the history of computer science. SAT was the first problem shown to be NP-complete in 1971 by Stephen Cook [4]. Having passed more than 40 years from then, SAT is now a lively research field where theory and practice have a natural intermixing. In this talk, we overview the use of SAT in practical domains, where SAT is thought in a broad sense, i.e. including SAT extensions such as Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT), Pseudo-Boolean Optimization (PBO) and Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF). 1998 ACM Subject Classification I.2.8 Problem Solving, Control Methods, and Search