Introduction to the Maximum Solution Problem

  • Authors:
  • Peter Jonsson;Gustav Nordh

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet, Linköpings, Sweden S-581 83;Laboratoire d'Informatique, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France F-91128

  • Venue:
  • Complexity of Constraints
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper surveys complexity and approximability results for the Maximum Solution (Max Sol ) problem. Max Sol is an optimisation variant of the constraint satisfaction problem. Many important and well-known combinatorial optimisation problems are instances of Max Sol : for example, Max Sol restricted to the domain {0,1} is exactly the Max Ones problem (which, in turn, captures problems such as Independent Set and 0/1 Integer Programming ). By using this relationship, many different problems in logic, graph theory, integer programming, and algebra can be given a uniform treatment. This opens up for new ways of analysing and solving combinatorial optimisation problems.