Advanced Preprocessing for Answer Set Solving

  • Authors:
  • Martin Gebser;Benjamin Kaufmann;André Neumann;Torsten Schaub

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;Universität Potsdam, August-Bebel-Str. 89, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008: 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We introduce the first substantial approach to preprocessing in the context of answer set solving. The idea is to simplify a logic program while identifying equivalences among its relevant constituents. These equivalences are then used for building a compact representation of the program (in terms of Boolean constraints). We implemented our approach as well as a SAT-based technique to reduce Boolean constraints. This allows us to empirically analyze both preprocessing types and to demonstrate their computational impact.