摘要: MAX SAT (the maximum satisfiability problem) is stated as follows: given a set of clauses with weights, find truth assignment that maximizes the sum weights satisfied clauses. In this paper, we consider approximation algorithms for proposed by Goemans and Williamson present sharpened analysis their performance guarantees. We also show these algorithms, combined recent 2SAT, 3SAT, due to Feige Goemans, Karloff Zwick, respectively, lead an improved algorithm SAT. By using 2SAT 3SAT obtain guarantee 0.7846, Zwick's algorithm, 0.8331, which improves upon 0.7977 based on conjecture. The best previous result without assuming conjecture 0.770-approximation Asano. Our requires new family 34-approximation generalize Williamson.