Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/intelligent-systems/3/b/ii/solution

The constraint hypergraph has one vertex for each of and one hypergraph edge for each constraint scope:
Here abbreviates . These five scopes follow the corrected source.[ref] The diagram uses the incidence representation: round nodes are the original variables, square nodes represent hypergraph edges, and a joining line means that the variable belongs to that constraint scope. The square nodes are not extra variables of .
Figure 1.
Incidence drawing of the five constraint scopes in Question 3(b)
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In particular, the central pattern involving forms a cycle through three constraint scopes; the scopes cannot themselves simply be joined into a valid tree decomposition without an additional bag.

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