Heuristic Backbone Sampling for Maximum Satis ability

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  • Orestis Telelis
  • Panagiotis Stamatopoulos
چکیده

The weighted maximum satis ability (MAXSAT) problem is of great interest to the Arti cial Intelligence community, as a model for several constraint satisfaction problems (emerging e.g. from planning) which require that an optimum subset of their constraints be satis ed. Recent research on satis ability (SAT) problems has reached interesting conclusions regarding their hardness. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm designed in a way inspired by these results. Based on the newly introduced concept of the backbone of a formula in conjunctive normal form, we try to sample the most likely values of boolean variables through an iterative process. Experiments conducted on appropriate unsatis able SAT instances show that the algorithm converges to a near optimum subset of satis ed disjunctive clauses. Evidence of remarkable success on weighted MAXSAT instances is also presented and discussed.

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تاریخ انتشار 2002