Title of dissertation: MODEL THEORY AND COMPLEXITY THEORY Walid Gomaa Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor William Gasarch Department of Computer Science...
The challenge in shift scheduling lies in the construction of a set of work shifts, which are subject to specific regulations, in order to cover fluctuating staff demands. This pro...
: This paper formalizes UML class diagrams and structural patterns as mathematical objects and provides a precise notion of conformance of a structural model specified as a class d...
We study the attribution problem, that is, the problem of attributing a change in the value of a characteristic function f to its independent variables. We make three contributions...
Planning in single-agent models like MDPs and POMDPs can be carried out by resorting to Q-value functions: a (near-) optimal Q-value function is computed in a recursive manner by ...