Many optimization problems can be expressed us ing some form of soft constraints, where different measures of desirability arc associated with differ ent combinations of domai...
David A. Cohen, Martin C. Cooper, Peter Jeavons, A...
The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a central generic problem in artificial intelligence. Considerable effort has been made in identifying properties which ensure tractabi...
We introduce the SoftAllEqual global constraint, which maximizes the number of equalities holding between pairs of assignments to a set of variables. We study the computational com...
Recently, a strong link has been discovered between supermodularity on lattices and tractability of optimization problems known as maximum constraint satisfaction problems. The pre...
In this paper we describe the problem of Optimal Competitive Scheduling, which consists of activities that compete for a shared resource. The objective is to choose a subset of ac...
Jeremy Frank, James Crawford, Lina Khatib, Ronen I...