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SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Preference-Based Web Service Composition: A Middle Ground between Execution and Search
Abstract. Much of the research on automated Web Service Composition (WSC) relates it to an AI planning task, where the composition is primarily done offline prior to execution. Rec...
Shirin Sohrabi, Sheila A. McIlraith
IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Reasoning about soft constraints and conditional preferences: complexity results and approximation techniques
Many real life optimization problems contain both hard and soft constraints, as well as qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is no single formalism to specify all t...
Carmel Domshlak, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Ve...
ICDT
2012
ACM
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11 years 10 months ago
Equivalence and minimization of conjunctive queries under combined semantics
The problems of query containment, equivalence, and minimization are recognized as very important in the context of query processing, specifically of query optimization. In their...
Rada Chirkova
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Simultaneous Elicitation of Preference Features and Utility
Most frameworks for utility elicitation assume a predefined set of features over which user preferences are expressed. We consider utility elicitation in the presence of subjecti...
Craig Boutilier, Kevin Regan, Paolo Viappiani