Classification Transfer for Qualitative Reasoning Problems

Abstract

We study formalisms for temporal and spatial reasoning in the modern context of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We show how questions on the complexity of their subclasses can be solved using existing results via the powerful use of primitive positive (pp) interpretations and pp-homotopy. We demonstrate the methodology by giving a full complexity classification of all constraint languages that are first-order definable in Allen's Interval Algebra and contain the basic relations (s) and (f). In the case of the Rectangle Algebra we answer in the affirmative the old open question as to whether ORD-Horn is a maximally tractable subset among the (disjunctive, binary) relations. We then generalise our results for the Rectangle Algebra to the r-dimensional Block Algebra.

Cite

Text

Bodirsky et al. "Classification Transfer for Qualitative Reasoning Problems." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018. doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2018/175

Markdown

[Bodirsky et al. "Classification Transfer for Qualitative Reasoning Problems." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2018/bodirsky2018ijcai-classification/) doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2018/175

BibTeX

@inproceedings{bodirsky2018ijcai-classification,
  title     = {{Classification Transfer for Qualitative Reasoning Problems}},
  author    = {Bodirsky, Manuel and Jonsson, Peter and Martin, Barnaby and Mottet, Antoine},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2018},
  pages     = {1256-1262},
  doi       = {10.24963/IJCAI.2018/175},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2018/bodirsky2018ijcai-classification/}
}