Extremal Separation Problems for Temporal Instance Queries



Jung, Jean Christoph, Ryzhikov, Vladislav, Wolter, Frank and Zakharyaschev, Michael
(2024) Extremal Separation Problems for Temporal Instance Queries. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The separation problem for a class Q of database queries is to find a query in Q that distinguishes between a given set of `positive' and `negative' data examples. Separation provides explanations of examples and underpins the query-by-example paradigm to support database users in constructing and refining queries. As the space of all separating queries can be large, it is helpful to succinctly represent this space by means of its most specific (logically strongest) and general (weakest) members. We investigate this extremal separation problem for classes of instance queries formulated in linear temporal logic LTL with the operators conjunction, next, and eventually. Our results range from tight complexity bounds for verifying and counting extremal separators to algorithms computing them.

Item Type: Preprint
Additional Information: Accepted for IJCAI 2024
Uncontrolled Keywords: cs.DB, cs.DB, cs.LO, I.2.4; F.2.2
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 03 Jul 2024 13:16
Last Modified: 03 Jul 2024 13:16
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.03511
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3182512