The concept of mutually exclusive hypothesis graph (MEHG) is introduced and NP-completeness of several problems on MEHG is proved. A probabilistic search algorithm is proposed for finding suboptimal branchings in such graphs and its performance is evaluated for graphs with uniform and exponential weight distribution.
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