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JUCS
2010
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LCP-Nets: A Linguistic Approach for Non-functional Preferences in a Semantic SOA Environment
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
Pierre Châtel, Isis Truck, Jacques Malenfant
HEURISTICS
2006
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Hard and soft constraints for reasoning about qualitative conditional preferences
Many real life optimization problems are defined in terms of both hard and soft constraints, and qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is as yet no single framework f...
Carmel Domshlak, Steven David Prestwich, Francesca...
IJCAI
2003
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Reasoning about soft constraints and conditional preferences: complexity results and approximation techniques
Many real life optimization problems contain both hard and soft constraints, as well as qualitative conditional preferences. However, there is no single formalism to specify all t...
Carmel Domshlak, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Ve...
AAAI
2004
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Extending CP-Nets with Stronger Conditional Preference Statements
A logic of conditional preferences is defined, with a language which allows the compact representation of certain kinds of conditional preference statements, a semantics and a pro...
Nic Wilson
ECAI
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
An Efficient Upper Approximation for Conditional Preference
The fundamental operation of dominance testing, i.e., determining if one alternative is preferred to another, is in general very hard for methods of reasoning with qualitative cond...
Nic Wilson
CPAIOR
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Conditional Lexicographic Orders in Constraint Satisfaction Problems
The lexicographically-ordered CSP ("lexicographic CSP" for short) combines a simple representation of preferences with the feasibility constraints of ordinary CSPs. Prefe...
Richard J. Wallace, Nic Wilson