In this paper, we propose an approach to guide search to sources of conflicts. The principle is the following: the last variable involved in the last conflict is selected in priori...
A spatial preference query ranks objects based on the qualities of features in their spatial neighborhood. For example, consider a real estate agency office that holds a database ...
Man Lung Yiu, Xiangyuan Dai, Nikos Mamoulis, Micha...
In this paper, we describe a buzz-based recommender system based on a large source of queries in an eCommerce application. The system detects bursts in query trends. These bursts ...
—This paper proposes the plateau structure imposed by the Pareto dominance relation as a useful determinant of multiobjective metaheuristic performance. In essence, the dominance...
We consider the problem of orienting the edges of a graph so that the length of a longest path in the resulting digraph is minimum. As shown by Gallai, Roy and Vitaver, this edge ...