Real-life problems present several kinds of preferences. We focus on problems with both positive and negative preferences, that we call bipolar preference problems. Although seemin...
Stefano Bistarelli, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca R...
Salinity is the relative concentration of salts in water. In a city of southern China, the local water supply company pumps water from a nearby river for potable use. During the wi...
The paper presents a new distributed metaheuristic algorithm in an optimal control problem related to the cooling process in the continuous casting of steel. The optimization task...
Peter Korosec, Jurij Silc, Bogdan Filipic, Erkki L...
Initial value problems for parametric ordinary differential equations (ODEs) arise in many areas of science and engineering. Since some of the data is uncertain, traditional numer...
Micha Janssen, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Yves Deville
In this paper, we propose a method which can be used to decompose a 2D or 3D constraint problem into a C-tree. With this decomposition, a geometric constraint problem can be reduc...