Deductive inference for the interiors and exteriors of horn theories

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhisa Makino;Hirotaka Ono

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this article, we investigate deductive inference for interiors and exteriors of Horn knowledge bases, where interiors and exteriors were introduced by Makino and Ibaraki [1996] to study stability properties of knowledge bases. We present a linear time algorithm for deduction for interiors and show that deduction is coNP-complete for exteriors. Under model-based representation, we show that the deduction problem for interiors is NP-complete while the one for exteriors is coNP-complete. As for Horn envelopes of exteriors, we show that it is linearly solvable under model-based representation, while it is coNP-complete under formula-based representation. We also discuss polynomially solvable cases for all the intractable problems.