We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, settings where agents are distributed and have privacy issues, or ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
Home health care, i.e. visiting and nursing patients in their homes, is a growing sector in the medical service business. From a staff rostering point of view, the problem is to f...
Fuzzy constraints are a popular approach to handle preferences and over-constrained problems in scenarios where one needs to be cautious, such as in medical or space applications. ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
We propose a convex optimization method for maximum likelihood estimation of autoregressive models, subject to conditional independence constraints. This problem is an extension t...
Jitkomut Songsiri, Joachim Dahl, Lieven Vandenberg...
In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic custom...