Constraint Optimization over Semirings

Authors: A. Pavan, Kuldeep S. Meel, N. V. Vinodchandran, Arnab Bhattacharyya

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Research Type Theoretical The present work investigates the complexity of constraint optimization problems over semirings. The generic optimization problem we study is the following: Given a propositional formula ϕ over n variable and a semiring (K, +, , 0, 1), find the maximum value over all possible interpretations of ϕ over K. ... We first show that for general propositional formulas in negation normal form, opt Conf Val and opt Conf are in FPNP. We then investigate opt Conf when the input formula ϕ is represented in the conjunctive normal form. For CNF formulae, we first derive an upper bound on the value of opt Conf as a function of the number of maximum satisfiable clauses. ... Building on this we establish that opt Conf for CNF formulae is hard for the complexity class FPNP[log]. We also design polynomial-time approximation algorithms and establish an inapproximability for opt Conf Val. We establish similar complexity results for these optimization problems over other semirings including tropical, fuzzy, and access control semirings.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1 Iowa State University 2 National University of Singapore 3 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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