Satisfiability-based algorithms for Boolean optimization

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 353-372

  Manquinho, Vasco M ^a   Marques Silva, João P ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Backtrack search; Binate covering problem; Branch and bound; Non chronological backtracking; Propositional satisfiability

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043152845     PISSN: 10122443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:amai.0000012872.46214.11     Document Type: Article

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