A New General Method to Generate Random Modal Formulae for Testing Decision Procedures

Patel-Schneider, Peter F. and Sebastiani, Roberto (2003) A New General Method to Generate Random Modal Formulae for Testing Decision Procedures. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    The recent emergence of heavily-optimized modal decision procedures has highlighted the key role of empirical testing in this domain. Unfortunately, the introduction of extensive empirical tests for modal logics is recent, and so far none of the proposed test generators is very satisfactory. To cope with this fact, we present a new random generation method that provides benefits over previous methods for generating empirical tests. It fixes and much generalizes one of the best-known methods, the random CNF_[]m test, allowing for generating a much wider variety of problems, covering in principle the whole input space. Our new method produces much more suitable test sets for the current generation of modal decision procedures. We analyze the features of the new method by means of an extensive collection of empirical tests.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA075 Electronic computers. Computer science
    Uncontrolled Keywords: automated deduction, testing, modal logics
    Additional Information: Published on Journal of Artificial Intelligence Reasearch, May 2003
    Report Number: DIT-03-022
    Repository staff approval on: 16 May 2003

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