Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Scholar Works Theses 2006 Horn formula minimization Tom Chang Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses Recommended Citation Chang, Tom, "Horn formula minimization" (2006). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from This Master's Project is brought to you for free and open access by RIT Scholar Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses by an authorized administrator of RIT Scholar Works. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]) May 7, 2004 1 Acknowledgement Throughout this project and my graduate studies here in RIT, I have received help from numerous sources. I would like to take this chance to express my gratitude. First I want to thank Professor Edith Hemaspaandra, without whose guidance, advice, patience and encourage- ment, this project would not have been possible. I also want to thank Pro- fessor Stanislaw P. Radziszowski and Professor Christopher Homan for taking the time to review and critique my work, and Professor Hans-Peter Bischof for guiding me and believing in me throughout the years. I want to thank the Laboratory for Applied Computing for financially supporting me through my project. Lastly, I want to thank my family and friends here in Rochester for supporting me and for always being there. 2 Contents 1 Abstract 5 2 Introduction 6 3 Basic terminology 7 3.1Booleanfunctions......................... 7 3.2Booleanformulas......................... 7 3.3Hornformulas........................... 8 3.4ImplicatesofaBooleanfunction................. 9 3.5Resolution............................. 10 4SAT 11 4.1GeneralSAT........................... 11 4.22-SAT............................... 13 4.3HornSAT............................