Using information from failures to guide subsequent search is an important technique for solving combinatorial problems in domains such as boolean satisfiability (SAT) and constr...
Abstract. Work by Kilby, Slaney, Thiebaux and Walsh [1] showed that the backdoors and backbones of unstructured Random 3SAT instances are largely disjoint. In this work we extend t...
With random inputs, certain decision problems undergo a “phase transition”. We prove similar behavior in an optimization context. Given a conjunctive normal form (CNF) formula...
Don Coppersmith, David Gamarnik, Mohammad Taghi Ha...
We study the approximability of 1-in-kSAT, the variant of Max kSAT where a clause is deemed satisfied when precisely one of its literals is satisfied. We also investigate differ...
Abstract: We present a new type of sat problem called the k-gd-sat, which generalizes k-sat and gd-sat. In k-gd-sat, clause lengths have geometric distribution, controlled by a pro...
Milena Vujosevic-Janicic, Jelena Tomasevic, Predra...