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Unsatisfiability-based Algorithms for Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization

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Cortes, Joao *
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Inês Lynce
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Vasco Manquinho
DOI:10.1007/s10817-026-09749-wdelete
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In the last decade, numerous algorithms for single-objective Boolean optimization have been proposed that rely on the iterative usage of a highly effective Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) solver. But the use of SAT solvers in Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization (MOCO) algorithms is scarce. Due to the shortage of efficient tools for MOCO, many real-world applications formulated as multi-objective are cast as single-objective, using either a linear combination or by setting a preference order among the objectives. In this paper, we extend the state of the art of MOCO solvers with three novel unsatisfiability-based algorithms. The first two are core-guided MOCO solvers. The third is a hitting set MOCO solver. Experimental results in several sets of benchmark instances show that our new unsatisfiability-based algorithms can outperform and complement other SAT-based, state-of-the-art algorithms for MOCO.
Keywords:
Multi-objective combinatorial optimization
Unsatisfiability algorithms
Hitting sets
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Journal of Automated Reasoning
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