On kernels, defaults and even graphs

  • Authors:
  • Yannis Dimopoulos;Vangelis Magirou;Christos H. Papadimitriou

  • Affiliations:
  • Max‐Planck‐Institut für Informatik, Im Stadtwald, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany E‐mail: yannis@mpi‐sb.mpg.de.;Athens University of Economics, 76 Patission Str., 10434, Athens, Greece E‐mail: vmag@isosun.ariadne‐t.gr.;University of California at San Diego, CS&EE Department, La Jolla, CA 92093‐0114, USA E‐mail: christos@cs.ucsd.edu.

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Extensions in prerequisite‐free, disjunction‐free default theories have been shown to be in direct correspondence with kernels of directed graphs; hence default theories without odd cycles always have a “standard” kind of an extension. We show that, although all “standard” extensions can be enumerated explicitly, several other problems remain intractable for such theories: Telling whether a non‐standard extension exists, enumerating all extensions, and finding the minimal standard extension. We also present a new graph‐theoretic algorithm, based on vertex feedback sets, for enumerating all extensions of a general prerequisite‐free, disjunction‐free default theory (possibly with odd cycles). The algorithm empirically performs well for quite large theories.