Some Computational Problems Related to Pseudo-intents

  • Authors:
  • Barış Sertkaya

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICFCA '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We investigate the computational complexity of several decision, enumeration and counting problems related to pseudo-intents. We show that given a formal context and a subset of its set of pseudo-intents, checking whether this context has an additional pseudo-intent is in conp , and it is at least as hard as checking whether a given simple hypergraph is not saturated. We also show that recognizing the set of pseudo-intents is also in conp , and it is at least as hard as identifying the minimal transversals of a given hypergraph. Moreover, we show that if any of these two problems turns out to be conp -hard, then unless p = np , pseudo-intents cannot be enumerated in output polynomial time. We also investigate the complexity of finding subsets of a given Duquenne-Guigues Base from which a given implication follows. We show that checking the existence of such a subset within a specified cardinality bound is np -complete, and counting all such minimal subsets is #p -complete.