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ICSOC
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Soft Constraint-Based Approach to QoS-Aware Service Selection
Abstract. Service-based systems should be able to dynamically seek replacements for faulty or underperforming services, thus performing self-healing. It may however be the case tha...
Mohamed Anis Zemni, Salima Benbernou, Manuel Carro
CP
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
A Soft Constraint of Equality: Complexity and Approximability
We introduce the SoftAllEqual global constraint, which maximizes the number of equalities holding between pairs of assignments to a set of variables. We study the computational com...
Emmanuel Hebrard, Barry O'Sullivan, Igor Razgon
CSCLP
2007
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
A Comparison of the Notions of Optimality in Soft Constraints and Graphical Games
The notion of optimality naturally arises in many areas of applied mathematics and computer science concerned with decision making. Here we consider this notion in the context of ...
Krzysztof R. Apt, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent V...
HEURISTICS
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
A logic of soft constraints based on partially ordered preferences
Representing and reasoning with an agent's preferences is important in many applications of constraints formalisms. Such preferences are often only partially ordered. One clas...
Nic Wilson
ACL
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training
Word alignment methods can gain valuable guidance by ensuring that their alignments maintain cohesion with respect to the phrases specified by a monolingual dependency tree. Howev...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin