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EOR
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
The car sequencing problem: Overview of state-of-the-art methods and industrial case-study of the ROADEF'2005 challenge problem
The ROADEF challenge is organized every two years by the French Society of Operations Research and Decision-Making Aid. The goal is to allow industrial partners to witness recent ...
Christine Solnon, Van Dat Cung, Alain Nguyen, Chri...
ACMICEC
2006
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
A semantic web approach to handling soft constraints in virtual organisations
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) within the Semantic Web architecture. The proposal is motivated by the need for a...
Alun D. Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig McKenzie, J...
HEURISTICS
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Hard and soft constraints for reasoning about qualitative conditional preferences
Many real life optimization problems are defined in terms of both hard and soft constraints, and qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is as yet no single framework f...
Carmel Domshlak, Steven David Prestwich, Francesca...
BPM
2006
Springer
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14 years 9 days ago
Modeling, Matching and Ranking Services Based on Constraint Hardness
A framework for modeling Semantic Web Service is proposed. It is based on Description Logic (DL), hence it is endowed with a formal semantics and, in addition, it allows for expres...
Claudia d'Amato, Steffen Staab
ECAI
2006
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Enhancing Constraints Manipulation in Semiring-Based Formalisms
Abstract. Many "semiring-like" structures are used in Soft Constraint Satisfaction Problems (SCSPs). We review a few properties of semirings that are useful for dealing w...
Stefano Bistarelli, Fabio Gadducci