On the counting complexity of propositional circumscription

  • Authors:
  • Arnaud Durand;Miki Hermann

  • Affiliations:
  • Équipe de Logique Mathématique (UMR 7056), Université Denis-Diderot Paris 7, 75251 Paris cedex 05, France;LIX (CNRS, UMR 7161), École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Propositional circumscription, asking for the minimal models of a Boolean formula, is an important problem in artificial intelligence, in data mining, in coding theory, and in the model checking based procedures in automated reasoning. We consider the counting problems of propositional circumscription for several subclasses with respect to the structure of the formula. We prove that the counting problem of propositional circumscription for dual Horn, bijunctive, and affine formulas is #P-complete for a particular case of Turing reduction, whereas for Horn and 2affine formulas it is in FP. As a corollary, we obtain also the #P-completeness result for the counting problem of hypergraph transversal.