Exact Max-SAT solvers for over-constrained problems

Journal of Heuristics

Volumn 12, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 375-392

  Argelich, Josep ^a   Manyà, Felip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Max sat; Soft constraints; Solvers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DATA STRUCTURES; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BRANCH AND BOUND ALGORITHMS; MAX-SAT; SOFT CONSTRAINTS; SOLVERS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 33646553316     PISSN: 13811231     EISSN: 15729397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10732-006-7234-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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