Abstract. Often, qualitative values have an ordering, such as (veryshort, short, medium-height, tall) or a hierarchical level, such as (TheWorld, Europe, Spain, Madrid), which are ...
Abstract. In spatial reasoning the qualitative description of relations between spatial regions is of practical importance and has been widely studied. Examples of such relations a...
We describe the design of the OLPS system, an implementation of the preferred answer set semantics for ordered logic programs. The basic algorithm we propose computes the extended ...
Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Stijn Heymans, Dirk Vermeir
We show how to approximate the feasible region of structured convex optimization problems by a family of convex sets with explicitly given and efficient (if the accuracy of the ap...
This paper is mainly concerned with the extension of database management systems querying capabilities, so that users may address queries involving preferences and get discriminate...