A New Upper Bound for Max-2-SAT: A Graph-Theoretic Approach

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Raible;Henning Fernau

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Trier, Trier, Germany 54286;University of Trier, Trier, Germany 54286

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '08 Proceedings of the 33rd international symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In MaxSat, we ask for an assignment which satisfies the maximum number of clauses for a boolean formula in CNF. We present an algorithm yielding a run time upper bound of ${\mathcal{O}}^*({2^{\frac{K}{6.2158}}})$ for Max-2-Sat(each clause contains at most 2 literals), where Kis the number of clauses. The run time has been achieved by using heuristic priorities on the choice of the variable on which we branch. The implementation of these heuristic priorities is rather simple, though they have a significant effect on the run time. Also the analysis uses a non-standard measure.