In many applications transactions between the elements of an information hierarchy occur over time. For example, the product offers of a department store can be organized into pro...
Agility, speed and flexibility in production networks are required in today's global competition in the flat world. The accuracy of order date delivery promises is a key elem...
Juhani Heilala, Jari Montonen, Arttu Salmela, Pasi...
Abstract— A disjoint support decomposition (DSD) is a representation of a Boolean function F obtained by composing two or more simpler component functions such that the component...
Propositional temporal logic is not suitable for expressing properties on the evolution of dynamically allocated entities over time. In particular, it is not possible to trace such...
As many real-world problems involve user preferences, costs, or probabilities, constraint satisfaction has been extended to optimization by generalizing hard constraints to soft co...