The complexity of model checking for propositional default logics

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Liberatore;Marco Schaerf

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Via Salaria, Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Via Salaria, Roma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We analyze the complexity of deciding whether a propositional interpretation is a model of a default theory for some of the variants of default logic presented in the literature: Reiter's, justified, constrained, rational, and cumulative. We prove that all the analyzed variants are Σp2-complete in the general case, and remains so even if all defaults are prerequisite-free and seminormal. Cumulative default logic is also Σp2-complete even if all defaults are normal and prerequisite-free. The other semantics are Δp2[log n]-complete and coNP-complete if all defaults are normal and prerequisites are allowed or not, respectively.