Abstract. Since the seminal book by the Gang of Four, design patterns have proven an important tool in software development. Over time, more and more patterns have been discovered ...
Although influence diagrams are powerful tools for representing and solving complex decisionmaking problems, their evaluation may require an enormous computational effort and this...
Abstract. In order to increase precision in searching for web pages or web documents, taking the temporal dimension into account is gaining increased interest. A particular problem...
Abstract. An optimization problem arising in the design of optical fibre networks is discussed. A network contains client nodes, each installed on one or more SONET rings. A const...
Abstract. Thanks to its extended expressiveness, the quantified constraint satisfaction problem (QCSP) can be used to model problems that are difficult to express in the standard C...