Abstract. By introducing the Regular Membership Constraint, Gilles Pesant pioneered the idea of basing constraints on formal languages. The paper presented here is highly motivated...
The Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problem (VCSP) is a general framework encompassing many optimisation problems. We discuss precisely what it means for a problem to be modelled in...
At the "functional level", Semantic Web Services (SWS) are described akin to planning operators, with preconditions and effects relative to an ontology; the ontology prov...
We study the computational complexity of reasoning with global constraints. We show that reasoning with such constraints is intractable in general. We then demonstrate how the sam...
—This paper presents an empirical study to investigate the maximum benefits that web users can expect from prefetching techniques in the current web. To this end a perfect web p...
B. de la Ossa, Julio Sahuquillo, Ana Pont, Jos&eac...