DCSP (Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem) has been a very important research area in AI (Artificial Intelligence). There are many application problems in distributed AI t...
Many combinatorial problems can be modelled as Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). Solving a general CSP is known to be NP-complete, so closure and heuristic search are usual...
Miguel A. Salido, Montserrat Abril, Federico Barbe...
(Appears as a regular paper in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), IEEE Computer Society, Washington D.C. Nov. 2002, p...
Column generation is a state-of-the-art method for optimally solving di cult large-scale optimization problems such as airline crew assignment. We show how to apply column generati...
Ulrich Junker, Stefan E. Karisch, Niklas Kohl, Bo ...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...