We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it...
We develop a model for elucidating the assembly pathways by which an icosahedral viral shell forms from 60 identical constituent protein monomers. This poorly understood process a...
Abstract. In the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), the aim is to find an assignment of values to a set of variables subject to specified constraints. In the minimum cost hom...
Abstract. Although constraint programming offers a wealth of strong, generalpurpose methods, in practice a complex, real application demands a person who selects, combines, and ref...
Determining the physical location of Internet hosts is a critical enabler for many new location-aware services. In this paper, we present Octant, a novel, comprehensive framework ...