The Complexity of Network Satisfaction Problems for Symmetric Relation Algebras with a Flexible Atom
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Abstract
Robin Hirsch posed in 1996 the Really Big Complexity Problem: classify the computational complexity of the network satisfaction problem for all finite relation algebras A. We provide a complete classification for the case that A is symmetric and has a exible atom; in this case, the problem is NP-complete or in P. The classification task can be reduced to the case where A is integral. If a finite integral relation algebra has a exible atom, then it has a normal representation B. We can then study the computational complexity of the network satisfaction problem of A using the universal-algebraic approach, via an analysis of the polymorphisms of B. We also use a Ramsey-type result of Nešetřil and Rödl and a complexity dichotomy result of Bulatov for conservative finite-domain constraint satisfaction problems.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1701-1744 |
| Number of pages | 44 |
| Journal | Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research |
| Volume | 75 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85148429779 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0001-8228-3611/work/142241231 |