In distributed constraint optimization problems, dynamic programming methods have been recently proposed (e.g. DPOP). In dynamic programming many valuations are grouped together i...
We introduce a novel spatial join operator, the ring-constrained join (RCJ). Given two sets P and Q of spatial points, the result of RCJ consists of pairs p, q (where p P, q Q) ...
The UML goal of being a general-purpose modeling language discards the possibility to adopt too precise and strict a semantics. Users are to refine or define the semantics in th...
: Parametric design is an important modeling paradigm in computer aided design. Relationships (constraints) between the degrees of freedom (DOFs) of the model, instead of the DOFs ...
Many internet and enterprise applications now not only use XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as a medium for communication but also for storing their data either temporarily for an...