Both parametric design tasks and analysis tasks of technical systems have a similar problem setting: The structure of the system to be configured or analyzed is defined already. W...
Preferences in constraint problems are common but significant in many real world applications. In this paper, we extend our conditional and composite CSP (CCCSP) framework, managi...
Abstract We describe an event-based, publishand-subscribe system based on using "smart subscriptions" to recognize weakly structured events. We present a hierarchy of sub...
The maintenance of global integrity constraints in database federations is still a challenge since traditional integrity constraint management techniques cannot be applied to such ...
This paper presents some new concepts and procedures for financial risk management. To complement the use of value at risk a new concept, upside potential or opportunity value as ...