Absiracf-In this paper, Scatter Search is used for the first time to solve the problems SAT and W-MAX-SAT. We present hereafter this approach and the general algorithm. We describe the issues of the method in the general context and then we propose an implementation for SAT and W-MAX-SAT. A procedure to generate good initial s c a t t e d solutions as well as an operator to combine solutions and a classical technique to improve the solutions quality are presented. We compare our empirical results with those obtained by GRASP as they are published in the literature.
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