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ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
15 years 1 months ago
"...And Nothing Else Changes": The Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter
ISMVL
2000
IEEE
134views Hardware» more  ISMVL 2000»
15 years 2 months ago
The 2-SAT Problem of Regular Signed CNF Formulas
Signed conjunctive normal form (signed CNF) is a classical conjunctive clause form using a generalized notion of literal, called signed atom. A signed atom is an expression of the...
Bernhard Beckert, Reiner Hähnle, Felip Many&a...
CP
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Controllability of Soft Temporal Constraint Problems
In real-life temporal scenarios, uncertainty and preferences are often essential, coexisting aspects. We present a formalism where temporal constraints with both preferences and un...
Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Neil Yorke...
CP
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Constraint-Based Combinators for Local Search
Abstract. One of the most appealing features of constraint programming is its rich constraint language for expressing combinatorial optimization problems. This paper demonstrates t...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Laurent Michel, Liyuan Liu
ACTA
2002
111views more  ACTA 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Adding a path connectedness operator to FO+poly (linear)
In the constraint database community, FO+poly and FO+linear have been proposed as foundations for spatial database query languages. One of the strengths of this approach is that t...
Chris Giannella, Dirk Van Gucht