Is there any NP-complet problem which is linear on average ? Perhaps
the satisfiability of propositionnal calculus (with Boyer Moore
algorithm) ?
Christophe
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Christophe Raffalli
L.F.C.S. (Laboratory for Fundation of Computer Science)
Department of Computer Science, King’s building university
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
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In article <C76BM3….@dcs.ed.ac.uk> c…@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Christophe Raffalli) writes:
Is there any NP-complet problem which is linear on average ? Perhaps
the satisfiability of propositionnal calculus (with Boyer Moore
algorithm) ?
The following discusses polynomial average time for satisfiability,
under various assumptions about the probability distribution.
PW Purdom, and C Brown: "The pure literal rules and polynomial
average time", SIAM J Comput, 14 (1985) pp 943-953.
It has several other references.
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