Axiom pinpointing has been introduced in description logics (DLs) to help the user understand the reasons why consequences hold by computing minimal subsets of the knowledge base t...
In this paper we study the consequences of the existence of sparse hard sets for NP and other complexity classes under certain types of deterministic, randomized, and nondetermini...
Impagliazzo and Wigderson IW97] have recently shown that if there exists a decision problem solvable in time 2O(n) and having circuit complexity 2 (n) (for all but nitely many n) ...
Traditional automata accept or reject their input, and are therefore Boolean. In contrast, weighted automata map each word to a value from a semiring over a large domain. The speci...
The collision problem is to decide whether a function X : {1, . . . , n} {1, . . . , n} is one-to-one or two-to-one, given that one of these is the case. We show a lower bound of...