A logic of conditional preferences is defined, with a language which allows the compact representation of certain kinds of conditional preference statements, a semantics and a pro...
We introduce mCP nets, an extension of the CP net formalism to model and handle the qualitative and conditional preferences of multiple agents. We give a number of different seman...
Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh
2. ODB-QOPTIMIZER : the tool ODB-QOPTIMIZERis a ODMG 93 compliant tool for the schema validation and semantic query optimization. The approach is based on two fundamental ingredien...
Semantic query optimization is the process of utilizing information implied by integrity constraints to reformulate the query into one that generates the same set of answers in a ...
Sang-goo Lee, Lawrence J. Henschen, Jonghun Chun, ...
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...