Algorithms for propositional KB approximation

  • Authors:
  • Yacine Boufkhad

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

One of the obstacles to the effective compilation of propositional knowledge bases (KBs) using Hom approximations, as introduced by (Selman & Kautz 1991), is the lack of computationally feasible methods for generating Hom bounds. In this paper new algorithms for generating Hom Greatest Lower Bounds (GLB) that can apply to large size KBs, are presented. The approach is extended through a more general target language: the renamable Hom class. The conditions under which a renamable Hom formula is a renamable Hom GLB of a KB are established and algorithms for computing it are derived. These algorithms can be used in the other approaches based on computation of Hom or renamable lower bounds as (Boufkhad et al. 1997). The efficiency of these algorithms and the tightness with respect to the KB in terms of number of models of the bounds, are experimentally evaluated. The renamable Hom GLB proves to be closer to the KB than the Horn GLB.