For the last ten years, a significant amount of work in the constraint community has been devoted to the improvement of complete methods for solving soft constraints networks. We ...
Simon de Givry, Javier Larrosa, Pedro Meseguer, Th...
Many black box optimization algorithms have sufcient exibility to allow them to adapt to the varying circumstances they encounter. These capabilities are of two primary sorts: 1) ...
The availability of a document’s logical structure in XML retrieval allows retrieval systems to return document portions (elements) instead of whole documents. This helps searche...
: Today, electronic cross-company collaboration is about to gain significant momentum, but still shows weaknesses with respect to productivity, flexibility and quality: A lack of s...
Software Product Lines aim at capturing the variability and commonality of a family of related programs that share a common set of assets. Variation points capture variability on ...