Structural Decompositions of Epistemic Logic Programs

Authors

  • Markus Hecher TU Wien
  • Michael Morak University of Klagenfurt
  • Stefan Woltran TU Wien

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i03.5672

Abstract

Epistemic logic programs (ELPs) are a popular generalization of standard Answer Set Programming (ASP) providing means for reasoning over answer sets within the language. This richer formalism comes at the price of higher computational complexity reaching up to the fourth level of the polynomial hierarchy. However, in contrast to standard ASP, dedicated investigations towards tractability have not been undertaken yet. In this paper, we give first results in this direction and show that central ELP problems can be solved in linear time for ELPs exhibiting structural properties in terms of bounded treewidth. We also provide a full dynamic programming algorithm that adheres to these bounds. Finally, we show that applying treewidth to a novel dependency structure—given in terms of epistemic literals—allows to bound the number of ASP solver calls in typical ELP solving procedures.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Hecher, M., Morak, M., & Woltran, S. (2020). Structural Decompositions of Epistemic Logic Programs. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(03), 2830-2837. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i03.5672

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AAAI Technical Track: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning