Abstract. A new constrained model is discussed as a way of incorporating efficiently a priori expert knowledge into a clustering problem of a given individual set. The first innova...
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...
Constraint satisfaction has been applied with great success in closed-world scenarios, where all options and constraints are known from the beginning and fixed. With the internet,...
In recent years, various constrained frequent pattern mining problem formulations and associated algorithms have been developed that enable the user to specify various itemsetbase...
Hybrid Scheduling Problems (HSPs) combine temporal and finite-domain variables via hybrid constraints that dictate that specific bounds on temporal constraints rely on assignments...