Computing stable models: worst-case performance estimates

  • Authors:
  • Zbigniew Lonc;Mirosław Truszczyński

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-661 Warsaw, Poland (e-mail: zblonc@alpha.mini.pw.edu.pl);Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046, USA (e-mail: mirek@cs.uky.edu)

  • Venue:
  • Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We study algorithms for computing stable models of logic programs and derive estimates on their worst-case performance that are asymptotically better than the trivial bound of $O(m 2^n)$, where $m$ is the size of an input program and $n$ is the number of its atoms. For instance, for programs whose clauses consist of at most two literals (counting the head) we design an algorithm to compute stable models that works in time $O(m\times 1.44225^n)$. We present similar results for several broader classes of programs. Finally, we study the applicability of the techniques developed in the paper to the analysis of the performance of smodels.