English

On the CNF encoding of cardinality constraints and beyond

Artificial Intelligence 2010-12-20 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

In this report, we propose a quick survey of the currently known techniques for encoding a Boolean cardinality constraint into a CNF formula, and we discuss about the relevance of these encodings. We also propose models to facilitate analysis and design of CNF encodings for Boolean constraints.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1012.3853,
  title  = {On the CNF encoding of cardinality constraints and beyond},
  author = {Olivier Bailleux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3853},
  year   = {2010}
}
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