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Backjumping is Exception Handling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2020

ED ROBBINS ,
ANDY KING Open the ORCID record for ANDY KING [Opens in a new window]  and
JACOB M. HOWE
ED ROBBINS
Affiliation:
University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK, (e-mails: edd.robbins@gmail.com, a.m.king@kent.ac.uk)
ANDY KING
Affiliation:
University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK, (e-mails: edd.robbins@gmail.com, a.m.king@kent.ac.uk)
JACOB M. HOWE
Affiliation:
City, University of London, EC1V 0HB, UK, (e-mail: j.m.howe@city.ac.uk)
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Abstract

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ISO Prolog provides catch and throw to realize the control flow of exception handling. This pearl demonstrates that catch and throw are inconspicuously amenable to the implementation of backjumping. In fact, they have precisely the semantics required: rewinding the search to a specific point and carrying of a preserved term to that point. The utility of these properties is demonstrated through an implementation of graph coloring with backjumping and a backjumping SAT solver that applies conflict-driven clause learning.

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backjumpingexception handlingconflict-driven clause learningSAT

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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , March 2021 , pp. 125 - 144
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