In many applications involving composite Web services, one or more component services may become unavailable. This presents us with the problem of identifying other components tha...
An instance of the classical Stable Roommates problem (sr) need not admit a stable matching. This motivates the problem of finding a matching that is “as stable as possible”, ...
The importance of the problems of contingent planning with actions that have non-deterministic effects and of planning with goal preferences has been widely recognized, and severa...
Preference-based search is the problem of finding an item that matches best with a user's preferences. User studies show that example-based tools for preference-based search c...
We use a lexicographical preference order on the problem space to combine solution synthesis with conflict learning. Given two preferred solutions of two subproblems, we can either...