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Here we deal with the logic of [GuSh 533], which tries to capture polynomial time (for finite models). There it is proved that the logic cannot say much on models with equality only. Here we prove that it cannot say much on models for which…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Saharon Shelah

In this paper, we consider an NP-hard problem of scheduling a set of jobs of equal processing time on two machines, given a partial precedence order on the set of jobs, with an objective to minimize the makespan. An approximation algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Anna Romanova

This paper presents the following results on sets that are complete for NP. 1. If there is a problem in NP that requires exponential time at almost all lengths, then every many-one NP-complete set is complete under length-increasing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Xiaoyang Gu , John M. Hitchcock , A. Pavan

In this work, we consider a restricted case of the well studied Sorting by Block Interchanges problem. We put an upper bound k on the length of the blocks (substrings) to be interchanged at each step. We call the problem Sorting by k-Block…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-06 Swapnoneel Roy

Exact tight bounds of the complexity of the satisfiability problem for dense modal logics is a difficult question, likely somewhere between $\PSPACE$ and $\EXPSPACE$ depending of the logic under question. For a class of them, called here…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Olivier Gasquet

Satisfiability modulo theory (SMT) consists in testing the satisfiability of first-order formulas over linear integer or real arithmetic, or other theories. In this survey, we explain the combination of propositional satisfiability and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-16 David Monniaux

While several classes of integer linear optimization problems are known to be solvable in polynomial time, far fewer tractability results exist for integer nonlinear optimization. In this work, we narrow this gap by identifying a broad…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Alberto Del Pia

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is ubiquitous in various areas of mathematics and computer science. Many of its variations have been studied including the Counting CSP, where the goal is to find the number of solutions to a CSP…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Amirhossein Kazeminia , Andrei A. Bulatov

Complexity theory can be viewed as the study of the relationship between computation and applications, understood the former as complexity classes and the latter as problems. Completeness results are clearly central to that view. Many…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Flavio Ferrarotti , Senen Gonzalez , Klaus-Dieter Schewe , Jose Maria Turull-Torres

We address lower bounds on the time complexity of algorithms solving the propositional satisfiability problem. Namely, we consider two DPLL-type algorithms, enhanced with the unit clause and pure literal heuristics. Exponential lower bounds…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sergey I. Nikolenko

Modal dependence logic was introduced recently by V\"a\"an\"anen. It enhances the basic modal language by an operator =(). For propositional variables p_1,...,p_n, =(p_1,...,p_(n-1);p_n) intuitively states that the value of p_n is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-05 Peter Lohmann , Heribert Vollmer

We study the computational complexity of satisfiability problems for classes of simple finite height (ortho)complemented modular lattices $L$. For single finite $L$, these problems are shown tobe $\mc{NP}$-complete; for $L$ of height at…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Christian Herrmann

The Finiteness Problem is shown to be unsolvable for any sufficiently large class of modular lattices.

Logic · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Christian Herrmann

Let L be some extension of classical propositional logic. The non-iterated probabilistic logic over L, is the logic PL that is defined by adding non-nested probabilistic operators in the language of L. For example in PL we can express a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ioannis Kokkinis

We study the problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines minimizing the total completion time, with each job using exactly one resource. First, we derive fundamental properties of the problem and show that the problem is polynomially…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-11-19 T. Janssen , C. Swennenhuis , A. Bitar , T. Bosman , D. Gijswijt , L. van Iersel , S. Dauzére-Pérès , C. Yugma

It is well known that many problems in interval computation are intractable, which restricts our attempts to solve large problems in reasonable time. This does not mean, however, that all problems are computationally hard. Identifying…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Milan Hladík

Program synthesis approaches struggle to learn programs with numerical values. An especially difficult problem is learning continuous values over multiple examples, such as intervals. To overcome this limitation, we introduce an inductive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Céline Hocquette , Andrew Cropper

Chance constraints are frequently used to limit the probability of constraint violations in real-world optimization problems where the constraints involve stochastic components. We study chance-constrained submodular optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Xiankun Yan , Anh Viet Do , Feng Shi , Xiaoyu Qin , Frank Neumann

Despite remarkable achievements in its practical tractability, the notorious class of NP-complete problems has been escaping all attempts to find a worst-case polynomial time-bound solution algorithms for any of them. The vast majority of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Stefan Rass

The non-preemptive job scheduling problem with release times and deadlines on a single machine is fundamental to many scheduling problems. We parameterize this problem by the set of job lengths the jobs can have. The case where all job…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jan Elffers , Mathijs de Weerdt