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Robert Nieuwenhuis, Albert Oliveras, and Cesare Tinelli. Abstract DPLL and Abstract DPLL Modulo Theories. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR'04), Montevideo, Uruguay, 2005.

Abstract. We introduce Abstract DPLL, a general and simple abstract rule-based formulation of the Davis-Putnam-Logemann-Loveland (DPLL) procedure. Its properties, such as soundness, completeness or termination, immediately carry over to the modern DPLL implementations with features such as non-chronological backtracking or clause learning. This allows one to formally reason about practical DPLL algorithms in a simple way. In the second part of this paper we extend the framework to Abstract DPLL modulo theories. This allows us to express---and formally reason about---state-of-the-art concrete DPLL-based techniques for satisfiability modulo background theories, such as the different lazy approaches, or our DPLL(T) framework.
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