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On the complexity of identifying Head Elementary Set Free programs

Logic in Computer Science 2009-05-26 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Head-elementary-set-free programs were proposed in (Gebser et al. 2007) and shown to generalize over head-cycle-free programs while retaining their nice properties. It was left as an open problem in (Gebser et al. 2007) to establish the complexity of identifying head-elementary-set-free programs. This note solves the open problem, by showing that the problem is complete for co-NP.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0905.3802,
  title  = {On the complexity of identifying Head Elementary Set Free programs},
  author = {Fabio Fassetti and Luigi Palopoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.3802},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

11 pages. To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)

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