On the complexity of identifying head-elementary-set-free programs

نویسندگان

  • Fabio Fassetti
  • Luigi Palopoli
چکیده

Head-elementary-set-free programs were proposed in (Gebser et al. 2007) and shown to generalize over head-cycle-free programs while retaining their nice properties. It was left as an open problem in (Gebser et al. 2007) to establish the complexity of identifying headelementary-set-free programs. This note solves the open problem, by showing that the problem is complete for coNP.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • TPLP

دوره 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010