Many combinatorial (optimisation) problems have natural models based on, or including, set variables and set constraints. This was already known to the constraint programming commu...
In this paper a new approach for computing Strong Backdoor sets of boolean formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF) is proposed. It makes an original use of local search technique...
Lionel Paris, Richard Ostrowski, Pierre Siegel, La...
Abstract. For efficiency reasons, neighbourhoods in local search are often shrunk by only considering moves modifying variables that actually contribute to the overall penalty. The...
Let G = (V, E) be a graph with vertex set V and edge set E. The k-coloring problem is to assign a color (a number chosen in {1, . . . , k}) to each vertex of G so that no edge has...
We propose a method for local search of Boolean relations relating variables of a CNF formula. The method is to branch on small subsets of the set of CNF variables and to analyze ...