Use of constraint-based techniques in interactive graphics applications poses a variety of unique challenges to system implementors. This paper begins by describing how interface ...
User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
Functional dependency is concerned with rewriting a Boolean function f as a function h over a set of base functions {g1, …, gn}, i.e. f = h(g1, …, gn). It plays an important r...
Chih-Chun Lee, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, Chung-Yang H...
Many real-world constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) can be over-constrained but contain a set of mandatory or hard constraints that have to be satisfied for a solution to be ac...
Both parametric design tasks and analysis tasks of technical systems have a similar problem setting: The structure of the system to be configured or analyzed is defined already. W...