Abstract. In the last years, extending OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) systems with spatial and temporal features has attracted the attention of of the GIS (Geographic Informa...
Combinatorial auctions, where agents can bid on bundles of items (resources, tasks, etc.), are desirable because the agents can express complementarity and substitutability among ...
We propose a framework to compute the utility of an agreement w.r.t. a preference set in a negotiation process. In particular, we refer to preferences expressed as weighted formula...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco M. Doni...
Abstract. Constraints and preferences are ubiquitous in real-life. Moreover, preferences can be of many kinds: qualitative, quantitative, conditional, positive or negative, to name...
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....