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<H2>2011/12 MSc Individual Projects</H2> |
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<H4>Supervisor: Christian Urban</H4> |
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<H4>Email: christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk, Office: Strand Building S6.30</H4> |
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<H4>If you are interested in a project, please send me an email and we can discuss details. Please include |
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<li> <H4>[CU1] Implementing a SAT-Solver in a Functional Programming Language</H4> |
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<p><B>Description:</b> |
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SAT-solver search for satisfying assignments of boolean formulas. Although this |
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is a computationally hard problem (<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete">NP-complete</A>), |
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modern SAT-solvers routinely solve boolean formulas with 100,000 and more variables. |
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Application areas of SAT-solver are manifold: they range from hardware verification to |
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Sudoku solvers (see <a href="http://anytime.cs.umass.edu/aimath06/proceedings/P34.pdf">here</a>). |
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Every 2 years there is a competition of the best SAT-solvers in the world.</p> |
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Most SAT-solvers are written in C. The aim of this project is to design and implement |
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<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML">ML</A>, but |
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<A HREF="http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell">Haskell</A>, |
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<A HREF="http://www.scala-lang.org/">Scala</A>, |
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<A HREF="http://caml.inria.fr/">OCaml</A>, ... are also OK). Starting point is |
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the open source SAT-solver MiniSat (available <A HREF="http://minisat.se/Main.html">here</A>). |
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The long-term hope is that your implementation becomes part of the interactive theorem prover |
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<A HREF="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/hvg/isabelle/">Isabelle</A>. For this |
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<B>Tasks:</B> Understand MiniSat, design and code a SAT-solver in ML, |
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empirical evaluation and tuning of your code.</p> |
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<B>Literature:</B> A good starting point for reading about SAT-solving is the handbook |
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MiniSat is explained <A HREF="http://minisat.se/downloads/MiniSat.pdf">here</A> and |
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<A HREF="http://minisat.se/Papers.html">here</A>. The standard reference for ML is |
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<A HREF="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/">here</A> (I can lend you my copy |
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of this book for the duration of the project). The best free implementation of ML is |
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<li> <H4>[CU2] A Compiler for System F</H4> |
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<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_F">System F</A> is a mini programming language, |
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which is often used to study the theory behind programming languages, but is also used as |
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This has been explained in full detail in a PhD-thesis by Louis-Julien Guillemette |
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This project is for a good student with an interest in programming languages, |
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who can also translate abstract ideas into code. If it is too difficult, the project can |
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The <A HREF="https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/jspui/bitstream/1866/3454/6/Guillemette_Louis-Julien_2009_these.pdf">PhD-thesis</A> by Louis-Julien Guillemette is required reading. A shorter |
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