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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.
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25   * See www.minisat.se for the original solver in C++.
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30  package org.sat4j.tools.xplain;
31  
32  import java.io.Serializable;
33  import java.util.Map;
34  
35  import org.sat4j.specs.ISolver;
36  import org.sat4j.specs.IVecInt;
37  import org.sat4j.specs.TimeoutException;
38  
39  /**
40   * Minimization technique used to reduce an unsatisfiable set of constraints
41   * into a minimally unsatisfiable subformula (MUS).
42   * 
43   * @author daniel
44   * @since 2.1
45   */
46  public interface MinimizationStrategy extends Serializable {
47  
48      /**
49       * 
50       * @param solver
51       * @param constrs
52       * @param assumps
53       * @return
54       * @throws TimeoutException
55       * @since 2.1
56       */
57      IVecInt explain(ISolver solver, Map<Integer, ?> constrs, IVecInt assumps)
58              throws TimeoutException;
59  
60      /**
61       * @since 2.1
62       */
63      void cancelExplanationComputation();
64  }