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Inference in MaxSAT and MinSAT

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Logical calculi applied to solve SAT are unsound for MaxSAT and MinSAT because they preserve satisfiability but not the minimum and the maximum number of unsatisfied clauses, respectively. This paper overviews the complete resolution and tableau-style calculi that have been defined to solve MaxSAT and MinSAT, as well as their variants with hard and weighted soft clauses. These calculi provide an exact approach to solving MaxSAT and MinSAT problems.

This work has been supported by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche, reference ANR-19-CHIA-0013-01, and Grant PID2019-111544GB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. The last author was supported by mobility grant PRX21/00488 of the Spanish Ministerio de Universidades.

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We thank the reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions, which greatly improved this manuscript. We also want to congratulate Reiner Hähnle on his 60th birthday, as well as thank Bernhard Beckert, Einar Broch Johnsen, Richard Bubel, and Wolfgang Ahrendt for organizing a symposium and Festschrift in honor of Reiner Hähnle.

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Li, C.M., Manyà, F. (2022). Inference in MaxSAT and MinSAT. In: Ahrendt, W., Beckert, B., Bubel, R., Johnsen, E.B. (eds) The Logic of Software. A Tasting Menu of Formal Methods. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13360. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08166-8_16

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