The problem of finding a high quality timetable for personnel in a hospital ward has been addressed by many researchers, personnel managers and schedulers over a number of years. ...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Sanja Pet...
The emerging paradigms of service oriented architectures and utility-based computing have the potential to greatly reduce the cost of data management. Data management service prov...
In this paper, we extend the traditional formalization of a Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems (DisCSP) to a Quantified DisCSP. A Quantified DisCSP includes several unive...
A conventional materialized view blindly materializes and maintains all rows of a view, even rows that are never accessed. We propose a more flexible materialization strategy aime...
Jingren Zhou, Jonathan Goldstein, Luping Ding, Per...
Workflow systems are an emerging technology which have become increasingly important in the drive for business to provide better services and increase productivity. Intuitively, w...