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19   * Based on the original MiniSat specification from:
20   *
21   * An extensible SAT solver. Niklas Een and Niklas Sorensson. Proceedings of the
22   * Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
23   * Testing, LNCS 2919, pp 502-518, 2003.
24   *
25   * See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
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30  package org.sat4j.minisat.core;
31  
32  import java.io.Serializable;
33  
34  /**
35   * Abstraction allowing to choose various restarts strategies.
36   * 
37   * @author leberre
38   * 
39   */
40  public interface RestartStrategy extends Serializable, ConflictTimer {
41  
42      /**
43       * Hook method called just before the search starts.
44       * 
45       * @param params
46       *            the user's search parameters.
47       * @param stats
48       *            some statistics about the search (number of conflicts,
49       *            restarts, etc).
50       * 
51       */
52      void init(SearchParams params, SolverStats stats);
53  
54      /**
55       * Ask for the next restart in number of conflicts. Deprecated since 2.3.2
56       * 
57       * @return the delay in conflicts before the next restart.
58       */
59      @Deprecated
60      long nextRestartNumberOfConflict();
61  
62      /**
63       * Ask the strategy if the solver should restart.
64       * 
65       * @return true if the solver should restart, else false.
66       */
67      boolean shouldRestart();
68  
69      /**
70       * Hook method called when a restart occurs (once the solver has backtracked
71       * to top decision level).
72       * 
73       */
74      void onRestart();
75  
76      /**
77       * Called when the solver backjumps to the root level.
78       * 
79       * @since 2.3.2
80       */
81      void onBackjumpToRootLevel();
82  
83      /**
84       * Callback method called when a new clause is learned by the solver, after
85       * conflict analysis.
86       * 
87       * @param learned
88       *            the new clause
89       * @param trailLevel
90       *            the number of literals assigned when the conflict occurred.
91       * @since 2.3.3
92       */
93      void newLearnedClause(Constr learned, int trailLevel);
94  }