Abstract. Constraints and preferences are ubiquitous in real-life. Moreover, preferences can be of many kinds: qualitative, quantitative, conditional, positive or negative, to name...
We show the first detailed realistic e-business application scenario that uses and exploits capabilities of the SweetRules V2.1 toolset for e-contracting using the SweetDeal approa...
Classical logic predicts that everything (thus nothing useful at all) follows from inconsistency. A paraconsistent logic is a logic where inconsistency does not lead to such an exp...
A population of virtual robots is evolved to perform the task of competitively painting the floor of a toroidal room. Two robots are present in any given room and paint using dis...
Dan Ashlock, Elizabeth Blankenship, Jonathan Gandr...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...