Product configuration management is presented as a practical application for a prototype-based object model. Data model requirements for a configuration system are first introduced...
A key factor that can dramatically reduce the search space during constraint solving is the criterion under which the variable to be instantiated next is selected. For this purpos...
Following a number of recent papers investigating the possibility of optimal comparison-based optimization algorithms for a given distribution of probability on fitness functions...
Updating XML documents submitted to schema constraints requires incremental validation, i.e. checking the parts of the document concerned by the updates. We propose to correct sub...
—Real mobile robots should be able to build an abstract representation of the physical environment, in order to navigate and to work in such environment. We present a method for ...