Abstract:Minimal hitting sets (MHSs) meliorate our reasoning in many applications, including AI planning, CNF/DNF conversion, and program debugging. When following Reiter’s ”theory of diagnosis from first principles”, minimal hitting sets are also essential to the diagnosis problem, since diagnoses can be characterized as the minimal hitting sets of conflicts in thebehavior of a faulty system. While the large amount of application options led to the advent of a variety of corresponding MHS algorithms, for diagnostic pu… Show more
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