Soft constraints based on semirings are a generalization of classical constraints, where tuples of variables' values in each soft constraint are uniquely associated to element...
: An interval problem is a problem where the unknown variables take interval values. Such a problem can be defined by interval constraints, such as "the interval [a, b] [a, b...
Nowadays many real problems can be modeled as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). In many situations, it is desirable to be able to state both hard constraints and soft constr...
In opinion mining of product reviews, one often wants to produce a summary of opinions based on product features/attributes. However, for the same feature, people can express it w...
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...