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2 * SAT4J: a SATisfiability library for Java Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Daniel Le Berre
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19 * Based on the original MiniSat specification from:
20 *
21 * An extensible SAT solver. Niklas Een and Niklas Sorensson. Proceedings of the
22 * Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability
23 * Testing, LNCS 2919, pp 502-518, 2003.
24 *
25 * See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
26 *
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28 package org.sat4j.tools.xplain;
29
30 import java.util.Map;
31
32 import org.sat4j.specs.ISolver;
33 import org.sat4j.specs.IVecInt;
34 import org.sat4j.specs.TimeoutException;
35
36 /**
37 * Minimization technique used to reduce an unsatisfiable set of constraints
38 * into a minimally unsatisfiable subformula (MUS).
39 *
40 * @author daniel
41 * @since 2.1
42 */
43 public interface MinimizationStrategy {
44
45 /**
46 *
47 * @param solver
48 * @param constrs
49 * @param assumps
50 * @return
51 * @throws TimeoutException
52 * @since 2.1
53 */
54 IVecInt explain(ISolver solver, Map<Integer, ?> constrs, IVecInt assumps)
55 throws TimeoutException;
56
57 /**
58 * @since 2.1
59 */
60 void cancelExplanationComputation();
61 }