A new algorithm for computing theory prime implicates compilations

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Marquis;Samira Sadaoui

  • Affiliations:
  • CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine, Bâtiment LORIA - Campus Scientifique, Vandreuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France;CRIN-CNRS and INRIA-Lorraine, Bâtiment LORIA - Campus Scientifique, Vandreuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We present a new algorithm (called TPI/BDD) for computing the theory prime implicates compilation of a knowledge base Σ. In contrast to many compilation algorithms, TPI/BDD does not require the prime implicates of Σ to be generated. Since their number can easily be exponential in the size of Σ, TPI/BDD can save a lot of computing. Thanks to TPI/BDD, we can now conceive of compiling knowledge bases impossible to before.