Meditations on Quantified Constraint Satisfaction

@inproceedings{Chen2012MeditationsOQ,
  title={Meditations on Quantified Constraint Satisfaction},
  author={Hubie Chen},
  booktitle={Logic and Program Semantics},
  year={2012}
}
  • Hubie Chen
  • Published in Logic and Program Semantics 30 January 2012
  • Business
The quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP) is the problem of deciding, given a structure and a first-order prenex sentence whose quantifier-free part is the conjunction of atoms, whether or not the sentence holds on the structure. One obtains a family of problems by defining, for each structure B , the problem QCSP( B ) to be the QCSP where the structure is fixed to be B . In this article, we offer a viewpoint on the research program of understanding the complexity of the problems… 
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Containment, Equivalence and Coreness from CSP to QCSP and beyond
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Previous results on containment, equivalence and "coreness" for QCSP are recalled and extended before initiating a preliminary study of cores for QC SP which turns out to be more elusive.
Tractability Frontier for Dually-Closed Temporal Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problems
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It is proved that QCSP for such a language is either solvable in polynomial time or it is hard for NP or coNP, a dichotomy for the restricted class of duallyclosed temporal languages.
Decomposing Quantified Conjunctive (or Disjunctive) Formulas
  • Hubie Chen, V. Dalmau
  • Computer Science
    2012 27th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
  • 2012
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A comprehensive classification of the sets of prefixed graphs on which model checking is tractable is given, based on a novel generalization of treewidth, that generalizes and places into a unified framework a number of existing results.
Fixed-Template Promise Model Checking Problems
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A class of problems that generalizes the CSP simultaneously in two directions is studied: a set L of quantifiers and Boolean connectives, and two versions of each constraint are specified, one strong and one weak.
The complexity of quantified constraints: collapsibility, switchability and the algebraic formulation
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It is proved a complexity-theoretic converse in the case of infinite constraint languages encoded in propositional logic, that if Inv(A) satisfies the exponentially generated powers property (EGP), then QCSP(Inv(A)) is co-NP-hard.
A Proof of the CSP Dichotomy Conjecture
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This article presents an algorithm that solves Constraint Satisfaction Problem in polynomial time for constraint languages having a weak near unanimity polymorphism, which proves the remaining part of the conjecture.
A Proof of CSP Dichotomy Conjecture
  • Dmitriy Zhuk
  • Mathematics, Computer Science
    2017 IEEE 58th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)
  • 2017
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An algorithm is presented that solves Constraint Satisfaction Problem in polynomial time for constraint languages having a weak near unanimity polymorphism, which proves the remaining part of the conjecture.
QCSP monsters and the demise of the chen conjecture
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A surprising classification for the computational complexity of the Quantified Constraint Satisfaction Problem over a constraint language Γ, QCSP(Γ), where Γ is a finite language over 3 elements which contains all constants and the Chen Conjecture is refuted.
The Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Complexity and Approximability
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This report documents the material presented during the course of the Dagstuhl Seminar 18231 “The Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Complexity and Approximability”, aimed at bringing together researchers using all the different techniques in the study of the CSP to share their insights obtained.
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