Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of solving efficiently structured CSPs. It is well known that (hyper)tree-decompositions offer the best approaches from a theoretical v...
The management of business processes has recently received a lot of attention. One of the most interesting problems is the description of a process model in a language that allows ...
This paper addresses one of the fundamental problems encountered in performance prediction for object recognition. In particular we address the problems related to estimation of s...
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a general framework for AI planning, but they lack the structure for representing real world planning problems in a...
We address in this paper the problem of scheduling for multiprocessor real-time systems with hard and soft tasks. Utility functions are associated to soft tasks to capture their r...