Here are a few problems I've solved with exact cover:

2D knapsack problem: http://sagenb.org/home/pub/2365/
graph coloring:
http://hg.sagemath.org/sage-main/file/5b338f2e484f/sage/graphs/graph_coloring.py#l1
finding matchings in graphs
finding cycle coverings of graphs
finding short programs to compute binary functions


On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Reckoner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for some applications of the exact cover problem beyond
> solving Sudoku puzzles. In other words, what are some application
> areas where the problem essentially reduces to finding an exact cover.
>
> By the way, I'm not having any luck googling around for this.
>
> Any pointers?
>
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