An ongoing debate in text understanding efforts centers on the use of pattern-matching techniques, which some have characterized as "designed to ignore as much text as possib...
—In highly dynamic environments like academy and industry it is becoming essential the need of efficient systems for resources organization and discovery. In this paper we descr...
Factor and suffix oracles have been introduced in [1] in order to provide an economic and efficient solution for storing all the factors and suffixes respectively of a given text. ...
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...
This paper presents an evaluation of the design decisions made in four state-of-the-art constraint solvers; Choco, ECLiPSe, Gecode, and Minion. To assess the impact of design deci...