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AAAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
Low-cost Addition of Preferences to DTPs and TCSPs
We present an efficient approach to adding soft constraints, in the form of preferences, to Disjunctive Temporal Problems (DTPs) and their subclass Temporal Constraint Satisfactio...
Bart Peintner, Martha E. Pollack
CISSE
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
From Constraints to Resolution Rules Part I : conceptual framework
: Many real world problems appear naturally as constraints satisfaction problems (CSP), for which very efficient algorithms are known. Most of these involve the combination of two ...
Denis Berthier
AUSAI
2005
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Evolutionary Methods for the Discovery of Local Search Heuristics
Abstract. Methods of adaptive constraint satisfaction have recently become of interest to overcome the limitations imposed on “black-box” search algorithms by the no free lunch...
Stuart Bain, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
AAAI
2000
14 years 11 months ago
Iterative Flattening: A Scalable Method for Solving Multi-Capacity Scheduling Problems
One challenge for research in constraint-based scheduling has been to produce scalable solution procedures under fairly general representational assumptions. Quite often, the comp...
Amedeo Cesta, Angelo Oddi, Stephen F. Smith
COR
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
A hybrid setup for a hybrid scenario: combining heuristics for the home health care problem
Home health care, i.e. visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to f...
Stefan Bertels, Torsten Fahle