We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, settings where agents are distributed and have privacy issues, or ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
Abstract. A positive temporal template (or a positive temporal constraint language) is a relational structure whose relations can be defined over countable dense linear order witho...
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 automatic generation of diagnostic decision trees from qualitative models is a reasonable compromise between the advantages of using a modelbased approach in technical domains...
The importance of temporal representation and reasoning is well known to the database community. Examples of such significance are the languages TSQL2 and its follow up, SQL/Tempo...