Title
Generating Clause Sequences Of A Cnf Formula
Abstract
Given a CNF formula Phi with clauses C-1 , ..., C-m and variables V = {x(1), ..., x(n)} , a truth assignment a : V -> {0 , 1} of Phi leads to a clause sequence sigma(Phi)(a) = (C-1(a), ..., C-m(a)) is an element of {0 , 1}(m) where C-i(a) =1 if clause C-i evaluates to 1 under assignment a , otherwise C-i(a) = 0. The set of all possible clause sequences carries a lot of information on the formula, e.g. SAT, MAX-SAT and MIN-SAT can be encoded in terms of finding a clause sequence with extremal properties.We consider a problem posed at Dagstuhl Seminar 19211 "Enumeration in Data Management" (2019) about the generation of all possible clause sequences of a given CNF with bounded dimension. We prove that the problem can be solved in incremental polynomial time. We further give an algorithm with polynomial delay for the class of tractable CNF formulas. We also consider the generation of maximal and minimal clause sequences, and show that generating maximal clause sequences is NP-hard, while minimal clause sequences can be generated with polynomial delay. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.tcs.2020.12.021
THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
CNF formulas, Clause sequences, Enumeration, Generation
Journal
856
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0304-3975
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kristóf Bérczi12812.40
Endre Boros21779155.63
Ondřej Čepek3598.30
khaled elbassioni447335.78
Petr Kučera5406.47
Kazuhisa Makino61088102.74