# Questions tagged [decision-problem]

A question in some formal system with a yes-or-no answer.

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### Decision Making using Multiple Variables

What should I learn if I want to make a decision based on multiple variables? Followings are the example of a problem. I have a farm. My variables are weather, humidity of air, humidity of soil, size ...
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### Obtaining an acyclic graph by removing edges using an algorithm that decides ACYCLIC

i don't understand the following: If there's an algorithm that can decide ACYCLIC in Polynomial time, then there's an algorithm who returns a set of k edges, so that the graph obtained by deleting ...
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### Prove that a set is decidable using time constructible function

I'm preparing an exam of theory of computation and I'm very in trouble with some exercise. Considering a Turing machine $\mu$ of alphabet $A=\{ 0,1 \}$ (we don't know nothing about termination) and a ...
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### What is the strongest arithmetic theory decidable by a DFA, DPDA or PDA?

It is known that WS1S can be decided by a DFA. Is this the strongest arithmetic theory decidable by a DFA? What happens when the automata class is extended to include DPDAs or PDAs?
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### A special case of subset sum

I came across the following problem in my complexity-theory course: Given a set of numbers $A := \{a_1, \dots, a_n\} \subset_{\mathrm{finite}} \mathbb{N}$ and a number $b$ also in $\mathbb{N}$ such ...
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### NP-completeness for integer linear program

This is a homework problem, so I don't want the solution. I need a hint which problem to reduce to the following and/or how to start on it. We were thinking of TSP or independent set but couldn't come ...
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### How to prove LastToken problem is NP-complete

Consider the following game played on a graph $G$ where each node can hold an arbitrary number of tokens. A move consists of removing two tokens from one node (that has at least two tokens) and adding ...