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We present two new branch and bound weighted Max-SAT solvers (Lazy and Lazy*) which incorporate original data structures and inference rules, and a lower bound of better quality.
Research partially supported by projects TIN2004-07933-C03-03 and TIC2003-00950 funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. The second author is supported by a grant Ramón y Cajal.
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Alsinet, T., ManyĆ , F., Planes, J. (2005). Improved Exact Solvers for Weighted Max-SAT. In: Bacchus, F., Walsh, T. (eds) Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. SAT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11499107_27
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