Quantified constraint satisfaction, maximal constraint languages, and symmetric polymorphisms
Chen, Hubie (2005) Quantified constraint satisfaction, maximal constraint languages, and symmetric polymorphisms. Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity 036 , ISSN 1433-8092.
Abstract
The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a convenient framework for modelling search problems; the CSP involves deciding, given a set of constraints on variables, whether or not there is an assignment to the variables satisfying all of the constraints. This paper is concerned with the quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP), a more general framework in which variables can be quantified both universally and existentially. We study the complexity of restricted cases of the QCSP where the types of constraints that may appear are restricted by a constraint language. We give a complete complexity classification of maximal constraint languages, the largest possible languages that can be tractable. We also give a complete complexity classification of constraint languages arising from symmetric polymorphisms.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2021 15:16 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:50 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/43343 |
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