%0 Book Section
%B Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools
%D 2013
%T MHS2: A Map-Reduce Heuristic-Driven Minimal Hitting Set Search Algorithm
%A Cardoso, Nuno
%A Rui Abreu
%C St. Petersburg
%I Springer Berlin Heidelberg
%P 25–36
%X <p>Computing minimal hitting sets (also known as set covers) for a collection of sets is an important problem in many domains (e.g., model/reasoning-based fault diagnosis). Being an NP-Hard problem, exhaustive algorithms are usually prohibitive for real-world, often large, problems. In practice, the usage of heuristic based approaches trade-off completeness for time efficiency. An example of such heuristic approaches is Staccato, which was proposed in the context of reasoning-based fault localization. In this paper, we propose an efficient distributed algorithm, dubbed MHS2, that renders the sequential search algorithm Staccato suitable to distributed, Map-Reduce environments. The results show that MHS2 scales to larger systems (when compared to Staccato), while entailing either marginal or small runtime overhead.</p>