The expressive rate of constraints

  • Authors:
  • Hubie Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Departament de Tecnologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In reasoning tasks involving logical formulas, high expressiveness is desirable, although it often leads to high computational complexity. We study a simple measure of expressiveness: the number of formulas expressible by a language, up to semantic equivalence. In the context of constraints, we prove a dichotomy theorem on constraint languages regarding this measure.