VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
David Seka
dblp:431/2671
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Graph algorithms and graph theory · 77% Automated reasoning and model checking · 23% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Graph algorithms and graph theory
graph coloring |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Graph Choosability via SAT: Beyond the Nullstellensatz · AAAI 2026 |
Automated reasoning and model checking › satisfiability
SAT solving |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Graph Choosability via SAT: Beyond the Nullstellensatz · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
nullstellensatz · 1.0SAT Modulo Symmetries · 1.0QBF encoding · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Graph Choosability via SAT: Beyond the NullstellensatzabstractList coloring extends graph coloring by assigning each vertex a list of allowed colors. A graph is k-choosable if it can be properly colored for any choice of lists with k colors each. Deciding k-choosability is π²ₚ-complete, bipartite graphs have unbounded list chromatic number, and planar graphs (famously 4-colorable) are all 5-choosable but not all 4-choosable. To search for graphs of given choosability, we extend SAT Modulo Symmetries (SMS) with custom propagators for list coloring pruning techniques and propose a quantified Boolean (QBF) encoding for choosability. We employ a hybrid approach: pen-and-paper reasoning to optimize our formulas followed by automated case distinction by QBF solvers and SMS. Our methods yield two significant results: (1) a 27-vertex planar graph that is 4-choosable yet cannot be proven so using the combinatorial Nullstellensatz widely applied in previous work (we show this is a smallest graph with that property), and (2) the smallest graph exhibiting a gap between chromatic and list chromatic numbers for chromatic number 3. Markus Kirchweger, Tomás Peitl, David Seka, Stefan Szeider |
AAAI | 3 |