People have become used to paper as an information carrier over thousands of years. Paper is usually easy to handle and has been adopted as a metaphor for information structures i...
Abstract. This paper describes jcc, an integration of the timed default concurrent constraint programming framework [16] (Timed Default cc) into JAVA [7]. jcc is intended for use i...
Abstract. A materialized view is a certain synopsis structure precomputed from one or more data sets (called base tables) in order to facilitate various queries on the data. When t...
Abstract. In this paper we investigate the ways in which a fixed collection of valued constraints can be combined to express other valued constraints. We show that in some cases a ...
David A. Cohen, Peter Jeavons, Stanislav Zivn&yacu...
Abstract. We present decision procedures for logical constraints involving collections such as sets, multisets, and fuzzy sets. Element membership in our collections is given by ch...