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On the Complexity of Finding Second-Best Abductive Explanations

Logic in Computer Science 2021-04-09 v3 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

While looking for abductive explanations of a given set of manifestations, an ordering between possible solutions is often assumed. The complexity of finding/verifying optimal solutions is already known. In this paper we consider the computational complexity of finding second-best solutions. We consider different orderings, and consider also different possible definitions of what a second-best solution is.

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@article{arxiv.1204.5859,
  title  = {On the Complexity of Finding Second-Best Abductive Explanations},
  author = {Paolo Liberatore and Marco Schaerf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5859},
  year   = {2021}
}
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