On solving the partial MAX-SAT problem

Z Fu, S Malik - International Conference on Theory and Applications of …, 2006 - Springer
Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) has seen many successful applications in various fields such as
Electronic Design Automation and Artificial Intelligence. However, in some cases, it may be …

Iterative and core-guided MaxSAT solving: A survey and assessment

A Morgado, F Heras, M Liffiton, J Planes… - Constraints, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) is an optimization version of SAT, and many real
world applications can be naturally encoded as such. Solving MaxSAT is an important …

[HTML][HTML] Old techniques in new ways: Clause weighting, unit propagation and hybridization for maximum satisfiability

S Cai, Z Lei - Artificial Intelligence, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) is a basic and important constraint optimization
problem. When dealing with both hard and soft constraints, the MaxSAT problem is referred …

MiniMaxSAT: An efficient weighted Max-SAT solver

F Heras, J Larrosa, A Oliveras - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2008 - jair.org
In this paper we introduce MiniMaxSat, a new Max-SAT solver that is built on top of MiniSat+.
It incorporates the best current SAT and Max-SAT techniques. It can handle hard clauses …

[PDF][PDF] Solving (Weighted) Partial MaxSAT by Dynamic Local Search for SAT.

Z Lei, S Cai - IJCAI, 2018 - researchgate.net
Abstract Partial MaxSAT (PMS) generalizes SAT and MaxSAT by introducing hard clauses
and soft clauses. PMS and Weighted PMS (WPMS) have many important real world …

NuWLS: improving local search for (weighted) partial MaxSAT by new weighting techniques

Y Chu, S Cai, C Luo - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) is a prototypical constraint optimization problem,
and its generalized version is the (Weighted) Partial MaxSAT problem, denoted as (W) PMS …

[PDF][PDF] A MaxSAT algorithm using cardinality constraints of bounded size

M Alviano, C Dodaro, F Ricca - Twenty-Fourth International Joint …, 2015 - ijcai.org
Core-guided algorithms proved to be effective on industrial instances of MaxSAT, the
optimization variant of the satisfiability problem for propositional formulas. These algorithms …

Automatic Parallelization of Software Network Functions

F Pereira, FMV Ramos, L Pedrosa - 21st USENIX Symposium on …, 2024 - usenix.org
Software network functions (NFs) trade-off flexibility and ease of deployment for an
increased challenge of performance. The traditional way to increase NF performance is by …

Tailoring local search for partial MaxSAT

S Cai, C Luo, J Thornton, K Su - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2014 - ojs.aaai.org
Partial MaxSAT (PMS) is a generalization to SAT and MaxSAT. Many real world problems
can be encoded into PMS in a more natural and compact way than SAT and MaxSAT. In this …

Optimization of combinatorial testing by incremental SAT solving

A Yamada, T Kitamura, C Artho, EH Choi… - 2015 IEEE 8th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combinatorial testing aims at reducing the cost of software and system testing by reducing
the number of test cases to be executed. We propose an approach for combinatorial testing …