Strong Backdoors for Default Logic

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Original languageEnglish
Article number15
Number of pages36
JournalACM Transactions on Computational Logic
Volume25
Issue number3
Early online date30 Mar 2024
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jun 2024

Abstract

In this article, we introduce a notion of backdoors to Reiter's propositional default logic and study structural properties of it. Also we consider the problems of backdoor detection (parameterised by the solution size) as well as backdoor evaluation (parameterised by the size of the given backdoor) for various kinds of target classes (CNF, KROM, MONOTONE) and all SCHAEFER classes. Also, we study generalisations of HORN-formulas, namely QHORN, RHORN, as well as DUALHORN. For these classes, we also classify the computational complexity of the implication problem. We show that backdoor detection is fixed-parameter tractable for the considered target classes and prove a complete trichotomy for backdoor evaluation. The problems are either fixed-parameter tractable, para-DeltaP2-complete, or para-NP-complete, depending on the target class.

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    backdoors, default logic, Parameterised complexity

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Strong Backdoors for Default Logic. / Fichte, Johannes Klaus; Meier, Arne; Schindler, Irena.
In: ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, Vol. 25, No. 3, 15, 17.06.2024.

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Fichte JK, Meier A, Schindler I. Strong Backdoors for Default Logic. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic. 2024 Jun 17;25(3):15. Epub 2024 Mar 30. doi: 10.1145/3655024
Fichte, Johannes Klaus ; Meier, Arne ; Schindler, Irena. / Strong Backdoors for Default Logic. In: ACM Transactions on Computational Logic. 2024 ; Vol. 25, No. 3.
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