Orbital branching is a method for branching on variables in integer programming that reduces the likelihood of evaluating redundant, isomorphic nodes in the branch-and-bound proce...
James Ostrowski, Jeff Linderoth, Fabrizio Rossi, S...
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
Torsten O. Paulussen, Nicholas R. Jennings, Keith ...
Abstract. The management of user preferences is becoming a fundamental ingredient of modern Web-based data-intensive applications, in which information filtering is crucial to red...
When implementing computational lexicons it is important to keep in mind the texts that a NLP system must deal with. Words relate to each other in many different, often queer, way...
Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Paola Velar...
Abstract. We address the problem of answering queries using expressive symmetric inter-schema constraints which allow to establish mappings between several heterogeneous informatio...