Consistent query answering is the problem of computing the answers from a database that are consistent with respect to certain integrity constraints that the database as a whole ma...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
Competent Genetic Algorithms can efficiently address problems in which the linkage between variables is limited to a small order k. Problems with higher order dependencies can onl...
Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
We consider complex scheduling problems that can be captured as optimization under hard and soft constraints. The objective of such an optimization problem is to satisfy as many h...
Abstract. Our ability to simultaneously measure the expression levels of thousands of genes in biological samples is providing important new opportunities for improving the diagnos...
David M. Reif, Bill C. White, Nancy Olsen, Thomas ...
This paper discusses the hierarchical control architecture used to generate the behavior of individual agents and a team of robots for the RoboCup Small Size competition. Our react...