Many AI tasks can be formalized as constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), which involve finding values for variables subject to constraints. While solving a CSP is an NP-complet...
Self-adaptation is imposing as a key characteristic of many modern software systems to tackle their complexity and cope with the many environments in which they can operate. Self-a...
(Appears as a regular paper in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), IEEE Computer Society, Washington D.C. Nov. 2002, p...
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) defines software tools and technology to support groups of people working together on a project, often at different sites [5]. In this wo...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...