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Zh. Vychisl. Mat. Mat. Fiz., 2013 Volume 53, Number 9, Pages 1569–1588 (Mi zvmmf9922)

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Implementation of Boolean functions with a bounded number of zeros by disjunctive normal forms

Yu. V. Maximovab

a Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia
b National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Pokrovskii bulv. 11, Moscow, 109028, Russia

Abstract: The problem of constructing simple disjunctive normal forms (DNFs) of Boolean functions with a small number of zeros is considered. The problem is of interest in the complexity analysis of Boolean functions and in its applications to data analysis. The method used is a further development of the reduction approach to the construction of DNFs of Boolean functions. A key idea of the reduction method is that a Boolean function is represented as a disjunction of Boolean functions with fewer zeros. In a number of practically important cases, this technique makes it possible to considerably reduce the complexity of DNF implementations of Boolean functions.

Key words: Boolean function, disjunctive normal form, complexity of Boolean function, probably approximately correct learning, algebraic classification methods.

UDC: 519.7

Received: 16.02.2012
Revised: 31.03.2013

DOI: 10.7868/S0044466913090093


 English version:
Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 2013, 53:9, 1391–1409

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