The International SAT Solver Competitions

The International SAT Solver Competition is today an established series of competitive events aiming at objectively evaluating the progress in state-of-the-art procedures for solving Boolean satisfiability (SAT) instances. Over the years, the competitions have significantly contributed to the fast progress in SAT solver technology that has made SAT a practical success story of computer science. This short article provides an overview of the SAT solver competitions. In addition to its theoretical importance, major advances in the development of robust implementations of decision procedures for SAT, SAT solvers, have established SAT as an important declarative approach for attacking various complex search and optimization problems. Modern SAT solvers are routinely used as core solving engines in vast numbers of different AI and industrial applications.