In case a CSP is over-constrained, it is natural to allow some constraints, called soft constraints, to be violated. We propose a generic method to soften global constraints that c...
Willem Jan van Hoeve, Gilles Pesant, Louis-Martin ...
—In this paper, we propose new “low-overhead” network monitoring techniques to detect violations of path-level QoS guarantees like end-to-end delay, loss, etc. Unlike existin...
K. V. M. Naidu, Debmalya Panigrahi, Rajeev Rastogi
In order to support the maintenance of object-oriented software systems, the quality of their design must be evaluated using adequate quantification means. In spite of the curren...
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
This research screens the tuning parameters of a combinatorial optimization heuristic. Specifically, it presents a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach that uses a Fractional Fac...