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Evaluating Graph Queries Using Semantic Treewidth

Authors Cristina Feier, Tomasz Gogacz, Filip Murlak

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  • Theory of computation → Regular languages
  • Information systems → Query languages
  • Theory of computation → Semantics and reasoning
  • Theory of computation → Automated reasoning
  • Theory of computation → Complexity theory and logic
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  • conjunctive two-way regular path queries
  • fixed-parameter tractable evaluation
  • semantic treewidth
  • Datalog encoding
  • optimization

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Abstract

Unions of conjunctive two-way regular path queries (UC2RPQs) are a common abstraction of query languages for graph databases, much like unions of conjunctive queries (UCQs) in the relational case. As in the case of UCQs, their evaluation is NP-complete in combined complexity. Semantic tree-width, i.e. the minimal treewidth of equivalent queries, has been proposed as a candidate criterion to characterize fixed-parameter tractability of UC2RPQs. It was recently shown how to decide the semantic tree-width of a UC2RPQ, by constructing the best under-approximation of a given treewidth, in the form of a UC2RPQ of size doubly exponential in the size of the original query. This leads to an fpt algorithm for evaluating UC2RPQs of semantic TW k which runs in time doubly exponential in the size of the parameter, i.e. in the UC2RPQ. Here we describe a more efficient fpt algorithm for evaluating UC2RPQs of semantic treewidth k which runs in time singly exponential in the size of the parameter. We do this by a careful construction of a witness query which, while still being doubly exponential, can be represented as a Datalog program of bounded width and singly exponential size.

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Cristina Feier, Tomasz Gogacz, and Filip Murlak. Evaluating Graph Queries Using Semantic Treewidth. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 290, pp. 22:1-22:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2024.22

Author Details

Cristina Feier
  • University of Warsaw, Poland
Tomasz Gogacz
  • University of Warsaw, Poland
Filip Murlak
  • University of Warsaw, Poland

Funding

This work was supported by Poland’s National Science Centre grant 2018/30/E/ST6/00042.

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