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Answer Set Solver Backdoors

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Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2014)

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Backdoor variables offer a generic notion for providing insights to the surprising success of constraint satisfaction solvers in solving remarkably complex real-world instances of combinatorial problems. We study backdoors in the context of answer set programming (ASP), and focus on studying the relative size of backdoors in terms of different state-of-the-art answer set solving algorithms. We show separations of ASP solver families in terms of the smallest existing backdoor sets for the solvers.

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  1. HIIT and Department of Information and Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland

    Emilia Oikarinen

  2. HIIT and Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Matti Järvisalo

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  1. University of Madeira, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

    Eduardo Fermé

  2. CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    João Leite

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Oikarinen, E., Järvisalo, M. (2014). Answer Set Solver Backdoors. In: Fermé, E., Leite, J. (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8761. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11558-0_51

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