Logical forgetting is removing some variables from a formula while maintaining its consequences on the remaining variables. This removal may require exponential time on arbitrary propositional Horn formulae, but it only takes polynomial time on single-head propositional definite Horn formulae. Single-head means that no variable is the head of multiple clauses. An algorithm to make a formula single-head if possible is shown. It enlarges the set of formulae admitting polynomial-time forgetting by making them single-head if possible and then running the usual algorithm for forgetting.

Reconstructing a single-head formula to facilitate logical forgetting / Liberatore, P.. - In: JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND COMPUTATION. - ISSN 0955-792X. - 33:7(2023), pp. 1596-1624. [10.1093/logcom/exac086]

Reconstructing a single-head formula to facilitate logical forgetting

Liberatore P.
2023

Abstract

Logical forgetting is removing some variables from a formula while maintaining its consequences on the remaining variables. This removal may require exponential time on arbitrary propositional Horn formulae, but it only takes polynomial time on single-head propositional definite Horn formulae. Single-head means that no variable is the head of multiple clauses. An algorithm to make a formula single-head if possible is shown. It enlarges the set of formulae admitting polynomial-time forgetting by making them single-head if possible and then running the usual algorithm for forgetting.
2023
artificial intelligence; knowledge representation; logical forgetting
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Reconstructing a single-head formula to facilitate logical forgetting / Liberatore, P.. - In: JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND COMPUTATION. - ISSN 0955-792X. - 33:7(2023), pp. 1596-1624. [10.1093/logcom/exac086]
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