Evènement pour le groupe Séminaire Méthodes Formelles


Date 2016-04-12  11:00-12:00
TitreOne Hierarchy Spawns Another: Graph Deconstructions and the Complexity Classification of Conjunctive Queries 
RésuméWe study the classical problem of conjunctive query evaluation, here restricted according to the set of permissible queries. In this work, this problem is formulated as the relational homomorphism problem over a set of structures A, wherein each instance must be a pair of structures such that the first structure is an element of A. This problem generalizes the graph homomorphism problem of deciding, given a pair of graphs, whether or not there is a homomorphism from the first to the second. We present a comprehensive complexity classification of these problems, which strongly links graph-theoretic properties of A to the complexity of the corresponding homomorphism problem. - In particular, we define a binary relation on graph classes and completely describe the resulting hierarchy given by this relation; this description involves defining a new graph-theoretic measure called stack depth which may be of independent interest. The binary relation is defined in terms of a notion which we call graph deconstruction and which is a variant of the well-known notion of tree decomposition. The hierarchy that results is reminiscent of that identified by Blumensath and Courcelle (LMCS 2010). - We then use this graph hierarchy to infer a complexity hierarchy of homomorphism problems which is comprehensive up to a computationally very weak notion of reduction, namely, a parameterized form of quantifier-free reductions. We obtain a significantly refined complexity classification of left-hand side restricted homomorphism problems, as well as a unifying, modular, and conceptually clean treatment of existing complexity classifications, such as the classifications by Grohe-Schwentick-Segoufin (STOC 2001) and Grohe (FOCS 2003, JACM 2007). In this talk, we will also briefly discuss parameterized complexity classes that we introduced/studied which capture some of the complexity degrees identified by our classification. This talk is based on joint work with Moritz M"uller that appeared in PODS ’13 and CSL-LICS ’14. 
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OrateurHubie Chen 
Emailhttp://hubiechen.weebly.com/ 
UrlIkerbasque 



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