Topological invariants of spatial databases (i.e., finite structures that capture the topological properties of the database) are receiving increasing attention since they can act...
Serafino Cicerone, Daniele Frigioni, Paolino Di Fe...
An instance of the maximum constraint satisfaction problem (Max CSP) is a nite collection of constraints on a set of variables, and the goal is to assign values to the variables ...
Peter Jonsson, Andrei A. Krokhin, Fredrik Kuivinen
Logics as Dialgebras Alessandra Palmigiano Departament de L`ogica, Hist`oria i Filosofia de la Ci`encia, Universitat de Barcelona The aim of this report is to propose a line of re...
We introduce an alternative to the smoothing technique approach for constrained optimization. As it turns out for any given smoothing function there exists a modification with part...
—Scenarios are increasingly recognized as an effective means for eliciting, validating, and documenting software requirements. This paper concentrates on the use of scenarios for...