Polynomial Time Inductive Inference of TTSP Graph Languages from Positive Data

Ryoji TAKAMI  Yusuke SUZUKI  Tomoyuki UCHIDA  Takayoshi SHOUDAI 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E92-D  No.2  pp.181-190
Publication Date: 2009/02/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Foundations of Computer Science)
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Keyword: 
inductive inference,  computational learning theory,  TTSP graph,  graph languages, 

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Summary: 
Two-Terminal Series Parallel (TTSP, for short) graphs are used as data models in applications for electric networks and scheduling problems. We propose a TTSP term graph which is a TTSP graph having structured variables, that is, a graph pattern over a TTSP graph. Let TGTTSP be the set of all TTSP term graphs whose variable labels are mutually distinct. For a TTSP term graph g in TGTTSP, the TTSP graph language of g, denoted by L(g), is the set of all TTSP graphs obtained from g by substituting arbitrary TTSP graphs for all variables in g. Firstly, when a TTSP graph G and a TTSP term graph g are given as inputs, we present a polynomial time matching algorithm which decides whether or not L(g) contains G. The minimal language problem for the class LTTSP={L(g) | g ∈ TGTTSP} is, given a set S of TTSP graphs, to find a TTSP term graph g in TGTTSP such that L(g) is minimal among all TTSP graph languages which contain all TTSP graphs in S. Secondly, we give a polynomial time algorithm for solving the minimal language problem for LTTSP. Finally, we show that LTTSP is polynomial time inductively inferable from positive data.