We study the CARDPATH constraint. This ensures a given constraint holds a number of times down a sequence of variables. We show that SLIDE, a special case of CARDPATH where the sli...
Christian Bessiere, Emmanuel Hebrard, Brahim Hnich...
In this paper, we show that there is a close relation between consistency in a constraint network and set intersection. A proof schema is provided as a generic way to obtain consi...
Power management in data centers has become an increasingly important concern. Large server installations are designed to handle peak load, which may be significantly larger than...
Vivek Sharma, Arun Thomas, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ke...
A widely adopted approach to solving constraint satisfaction problems combines systematic tree search with constraint propagation for pruning the search space. Constraint propagati...
Chiu Wo Choi, Warwick Harvey, J. H. M. Lee, Peter ...
In a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a system is viewed as a collection of independent units (services) that interact with one another through message exchanges. Established ...
Johannes Maria Zaha, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M. te...