Representing and reasoning with an agent's preferences is important in many applications of constraints formalisms. Such preferences are often only partially ordered. One clas...
The semiring-based formalism to model soft constraint has been introduced in 1995 by Ugo Montanari and the authors of this paper. The idea was to make constraint programming more f...
Word alignment methods can gain valuable guidance by ensuring that their alignments maintain cohesion with respect to the phrases specified by a monolingual dependency tree. Howev...
Today's business process orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL and BPML have high-level constructs for specifying flow of control and data, but facilities for allocating ta...
Christian Stefansen, Sriram K. Rajamani, Parameswa...
Over the past few years there has been considerable progress in methods to systematically analyse the complexity of constraint satisfaction problems with specified constraint type...
David A. Cohen, Martin C. Cooper, Peter Jeavons, A...