Syntax NP Complete - Hamiltonian Paths

• From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
• Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:44:21 +0300
• To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200304021544.21956.jjc@hpl.hp.com>

On Friday while working on my formal objection I noted that there might be a 
relationship to the NP complete problem of Hamiltonian paths (i.e. finding a 
path through a graph that visits every node) and the EquivalentClasses 
mapping rule.
Unfortunately, there is. I am sorry for not noticing earlier.
It is not hard to fix, but I am not sure where I send my observations.
Proof:
Given an undirected., unlabelled graph G over the integers 1, ... n, and a 
tool that can tell if an RDF/XML document is in OWL DL or not, we can 
determine if there is a Hamiltonian path in the following fashion:
1: Is G connected, (O(n^3) Roy's algorithm, often misattributed to Warshall)
  If NO then there is no Hamiltonian Path.
Otherwise:
 Construct RDF Graph
 _:n<i> owl:equivalentClass _:n<j> . For all i, j s.t. {i,j} is in G.
_:n<i> rdf:type owl:Class .   i = 1 .... n
_:n<i> owl:unionOf rdf:nil .  i = 1 ... n
Then this RDF Graph is in OWL DL iff there is a Hamiltonian path in G.
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Possible fixes include one of:
1: use B.1, B.2;
2: change mapping rule to
EquivalentClasses( d1, .... dn )
  T(di) owl:equivalentClass T(dj) .
or
 T(dj) owl:equivalentClass T(di) .   For all i,j s.t {i,j} in G, an arbitrary 
connected graph over {1, 2, ... n }
3: delete optional part of mapping rule for EquivalentClasses
 

Received on Wednesday, 2 April 2003 08:44:00 UTC