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Why can local search not prove that a problem is unsatisfiable?

  • A.It cannot evaluate whether a given constraint has been violated
  • B.It always terminates before the search is complete
  • C.It requires a solution to exist before it can begin
  • D.It explores only some assignments and never exhausts the space

Answer: D

A local search that fails to find a solution has established only that it did not find one, since it never enumerates the space and may simply have looked in the wrong region. Systematic search with propagation can exhaust the space and prove absence. Constraint evaluation and initialisation are unaffected. That a negative result from an incomplete method carries no information is the same point made about incomplete search algorithms generally, and it decides which family a problem requiring a proof must use.

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