Enumerating Potential Maximal Cliques via SAT and ASP

Enumerating Potential Maximal Cliques via SAT and ASP

Tuukka Korhonen, Jeremias Berg, Matti Järvisalo

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 1116-1122. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/156

The Bouchitté-Todinca algorithm (BT), operating dynamic programming over the so-called potential maximal cliques (PMCs), yields a practically efficient approach to treewidth and generalized hypertreewidth. The enumeration of PMCs is a scalability bottleneck for BT in practice. We propose the use of declarative solvers for PMC enumeration as a substitute for the specialized PMC enumeration algorithms employed in current BT implementations. The presented Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and answer set programming (ASP) based PMC enumeration approaches open up new possibilities for improving the efficiency of BT in practice.
Keywords:
Constraints and SAT: SAT: Evaluation and Analysis
Constraints and SAT: SAT: Applications