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Tractable answer-set programming with weight constraints: bounded treewidth is not enough*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2012

REINHARD PICHLER,
STEFAN RÜMMELE,
STEFAN SZEIDER and
STEFAN WOLTRAN
REINHARD PICHLER
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria (e-mail: pichler@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, ruemmele@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, woltran@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, stefan@szeider.net)
STEFAN RÜMMELE
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria (e-mail: pichler@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, ruemmele@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, woltran@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, stefan@szeider.net)
STEFAN SZEIDER
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria (e-mail: pichler@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, ruemmele@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, woltran@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, stefan@szeider.net)
STEFAN WOLTRAN
Affiliation:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria (e-mail: pichler@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, ruemmele@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, woltran@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, stefan@szeider.net)
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Abstract

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Cardinality constraints or, more generally, weight constraints are well recognized as an important extension of answer-set programming. Clearly, all common algorithmic tasks related to programs with cardinality or weight constraints – like checking the consistency of a program – are intractable. Many intractable problems in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning have been shown to become linear time tractable if the treewidth of the programs or formulas under consideration is bounded by some constant. The goal of this paper is to apply the notion of treewidth to programs with cardinality or weight constraints and to identify tractable fragments. It will turn out that the straightforward application of treewidth to such class of programs does not suffice to obtain tractability. However, by imposing further restrictions, tractability can be achieved.

Keywords

answer-set programmingparameterized complexity analysistreewidth

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Type
Regular Papers
Information
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , March 2014, pp. 141 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

Footnotes

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A preliminary version appeared in the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2010).

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