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On Fixed-Parameter Tractable Parameterizations of SAT

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We survey and compare parameterizations of the propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) in the framework of Parameterized Complexity (Downey and Fellows, 1999). In particular, we consider (a) parameters based on structural graph decompositions (tree-width, branch-width, and clique-width), (b) a parameter emerging from matching theory (maximum deficiency), and (c) a parameter defined by translating clause-sets into certain implicational formulas (falsum number).

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Szeider, S. (2004). On Fixed-Parameter Tractable Parameterizations of SAT. In: Giunchiglia, E., Tacchella, A. (eds) Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. SAT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24605-3_15

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