Semirings For Soft Constraint Solving And Programming

Author : Stefano Bistarelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540259251

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Semirings for Soft Constraint Solving and Programming by Stefano Bistarelli Pdf

Constraint satisfaction and constraint programming have shown to be very simple but powerful ideas, with applications in various areas. Still, in the last ten years, the simple notion of constraints has shown some deficiencies concerning both theory and practice, typically in the way over-constrained problems and preferences are treated. For this reason, the notion of soft constraints has been introduced with semiring-based soft constraints and valued constraints being the two main general frameworks. This book includes formal definitions and properties of semiring-based soft constraints, as well as their use within constraint logic programming and concurrent constraint programming. Moreover, the author shows how to adapt existing notions and techniques such as abstraction and interchangeability to the soft constraint framework and it is demonstrated how soft constraints can be used in some application areas, such as security. Overall, this book is a great starting point for anyone interested in understanding the basics of semiring-based soft constraints.

Author : Tai-He Fan,Shui-Li Chen,San-Min Wang,Yong-Ming Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319462066

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Quantitative Logic and Soft Computing 2016 by Tai-He Fan,Shui-Li Chen,San-Min Wang,Yong-Ming Li Pdf

This book is the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Quantitative Logic and Soft Computing (QLSC2016) held 14-17, October, 2016 in Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China. It includes 61 papers, of which 5 are plenary talks( 3 abstracts and 2 full length talks). QLSC2016 was the fourth in a series of conferences on Quantitative Logic and Soft Computing. This conference was a major symposium for scientists, engineers and practitioners to present their updated results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of quantitative logic and soft computing. The book aims to strengthen relations between industry research laboratories and universities in fields such as quantitative logic and soft computing worldwide as follows: (1) Quantitative Logic and Uncertainty Logic; (2) Automata and Quantification of Software; (3) Fuzzy Connectives and Fuzzy Reasoning; (4) Fuzzy Logical Algebras; (5) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing; (6) Fuzzy Sets Theory and Applications.

Author : François Fages,Francesca Rossi,Sylvain Soliman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540898122

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Recent Advances in Constraints by François Fages,Francesca Rossi,Sylvain Soliman Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-workshop proceedings of the 12th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2007, held in Rocquencourt, France, in June 2007. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 initial submissions. The papers address all aspects of constraint and logic programming, including foundational issues, implementation techniques, new applications as well as teaching issues. Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions.

Author : Rogério de Lemos,Jean-Charles Fabre,Cristina Gacek,Fabio Gadducci,Maurice H. ter Beek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642102486

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Architecting Dependable Systems VI by Rogério de Lemos,Jean-Charles Fabre,Cristina Gacek,Fabio Gadducci,Maurice H. ter Beek Pdf

As software systems become increasingly ubiquitous, issues of dependability become ever more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability and security are addressed at the architectural level. This book has originated from an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures, dependability and security. This state-of-the-art survey contains expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the carefully selected contributions to two workshops: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2008), organized at the 2008 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, in June 2008, and the Third International Workshop on Views On Designing Complex Architectures (VODCA 2008) held in Bertinoro, Italy, in August 2008. It also contains invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The 13 papers are organized in topical sections on dependable service-oriented architectures, fault-tolerance and system evaluation, and architecting security.

Author : Richard H. Enns,George C. McGuire
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0817642919

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Computer Algebra Recipes for Classical Mechanics by Richard H. Enns,George C. McGuire Pdf

This is a standalone, but the recipes are correlated with topics found in standard texts, and make use of MAPLE (Release 7). As a reference text, or self-study guide this book is useful for science professionals and engineers.; Good for the classroom correlates with topics found in standard classical mechanics texts.; This book makes use of the powerful computer algebra system MAPLE (Release 7) but no prior knowledge of MAPLE is presumed.; The relevant command structures are explained on a need-to-know basis as the recipes are developed, thus making this a standalone text.

Author : Grigori Sidorov,Arturo Hernández Aguirre,Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642167614

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence by Grigori Sidorov,Arturo Hernández Aguirre,Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia Pdf

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that models the human ability of reasoning, usage of human language and organization of knowledge, solving problems and practically all other human intellectual abilities. Usually it is charact- ized by the application of heuristic methods because in the majority of cases there is no exact solution to this kind of problem. The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), a yearly international conference series organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Int- ligence (SMIA), is a major international AI forum and the main event in the academic life of the country’s growing AI community. In 2010, SMIA celebrated 10 years of activity related to the organization of MICAI as is represented in its slogan: “Ten years on the road with AI”. MICAI conferences traditionally publish high-quality papers in all areas of arti- cial intelligence and its applications. The proceedings of the previous MICAI events were also published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series, vols. 1793, 2313, 2972, 3789, 4293, 4827, 5317, and 5845. Since its foun- tion in 2000, the conference has been growing in popularity and improving in quality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 7289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : G. Brewka,S. Coradeschi,A. Perini
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781607501893

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ECAI 2006 by G. Brewka,S. Coradeschi,A. Perini Pdf

In the summer of 1956, John McCarthy organized the famous Dartmouth Conference which is now commonly viewed as the founding event for the field of Artificial Intelligence. During the last 50 years, AI has seen a tremendous development and is now a well-established scientific discipline all over the world. Also in Europe AI is in excellent shape, as witnessed by the large number of high quality papers in this publication. In comparison with ECAI 2004, there’s a strong increase in the relative number of submissions from Distributed AI / Agents and Cognitive Modelling. Knowledge Representation & Reasoning is traditionally strong in Europe and remains the biggest area of ECAI-06. One reason the figures for Case-Based Reasoning are rather low is that much of the high quality work in this area has found its way into prestigious applications and is thus represented under the heading of PAIS.

Author : Pierpaolo Degano,Rocco de Nicola,José Meseguer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540686798

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Concurrency, Graphs and Models by Pierpaolo Degano,Rocco de Nicola,José Meseguer Pdf

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of Ugo Montanari on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains 43 papers that examine the research areas to which he has contributed, from logic programming to software engineering, as well as his many achievements.

Author : Jean-Daniel Zucker,Lorenza Saitta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540318828

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Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation by Jean-Daniel Zucker,Lorenza Saitta Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA 2005). The symposium was held at Airth Castle, Scotland, UK, from July 26th to 29th, 2005, just prior to the IJCAI 2005 conference in Edinburgh.

Author : Francesca Rossi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540451938

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2003 by Francesca Rossi Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2003), held in Kinsale, Ireland, from September 29 to October 3, 2003. Detailed information about the CP 2003 conference can be found at the URL http://www.cs.ucc.ie/cp2003/ The CP conferences are held annually and provide an international forum for the latest results on all aspects of constraint programming. Previous CP conferences were held in Cassis (France) in 1995, in Cambridge (USA) in 1996, in Schloss Hagenberg (Austria) in 1997, in Pisa (Italy) in 1998, in Alexandria (USA) in 1999, in Singapore in 2000, in Paphos (Cyprus) in 2001, and in Ithaca (USA) in 2002. Like previous CP conferences, CP 2003 again showed the interdisciplinary nature of computing with constraints, and also its usefulness in many problem domains and applications. Constraint programming, with its solvers, languages, theoretical results, and applications, has become a widely recognized paradigm to model and solve successfully many real-life problems, and to reason about problems in many research areas.

Author : Félix Castro,Alexander Gelbukh,Miguel González Mendoza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642451140

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications by Félix Castro,Alexander Gelbukh,Miguel González Mendoza Pdf

The two-volume set LNAI 8265 and LNAI 8266 constitutes the proceedings of the 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in November 2013. The total of 85 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The first volume deals with advances in artificial intelligence and its applications and is structured in the following five sections: logic and reasoning; knowledge-based systems and multi-agent systems; natural language processing; machine translation; and bioinformatics and medical applications. The second volume deals with advances in soft computing and its applications and is structured in the following eight sections: evolutionary and nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms; neural networks and hybrid intelligent systems; fuzzy systems; machine learning and pattern recognition; data mining; computer vision and image processing; robotics, planning and scheduling and emotion detection, sentiment analysis and opinion mining.

Author : Gerhard Brewka
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 1586036424

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ECAI 2006 by Gerhard Brewka Pdf

Author : Bing Xie,Juergen Branke,Masoud Sadjadi,Daqing Zhang,Xingshe Zhou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642165757

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Autonomic and Trusted Computing by Bing Xie,Juergen Branke,Masoud Sadjadi,Daqing Zhang,Xingshe Zhou Pdf

Computing systems including hardware, software, communication, and networks are becoming increasingly large and heterogeneous. In short, they have become - creasingly complex. Such complexity is getting even more critical with the ubiquitous permeation of embedded devices and other pervasive systems. To cope with the growing and ubiquitous complexity, autonomic computing (AC) focuses on self-manageable computing and communication systems that exhibit self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other self-* properties to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance. Organic computing (OC) additionally addresses adaptability, robustness, and c- trolled emergence as well as nature-inspired concepts for self-organization. Any autonomic or organic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trust and/or distrust relationships in the Internet and in pervasive infrastructures are key factors to enable dynamic interaction and cooperation of various users, systems, and services. Trusted/ trustworthy computing (TC) aims at making computing and communication systems––as well as services––available, predictable, traceable, controllable, asse- able, sustainable, dependable, persistent, security/privacy protectable, etc. A series of grand challenges exists to achieve practical autonomic or organic s- tems with truly trustworthy services. Started in 2005, ATC conferences have been held at Nagasaki (Japan), Vienna (Austria), Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong (China), Oslo (Norway) and Brisbane (Australia). The 2010 proceedings contain the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC 2010), held in Xi’an, China, October 26–29, 2010.

Author : Andrea Corradini,Ugo Montanari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642034299

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Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques by Andrea Corradini,Ugo Montanari Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques, WADT 2008, held in Pisa, Italy, on June 13-16, 2008. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 presentations at the workshop. The papers focus on the algebraic approaches to the specification and development of systems, and address topics such as formal methods for system development, specification languages and methods, systems and techniques for reasoning about specifications, specification development systems, methods and techniques for concurrent, distributed and mobile systems, and algebraic and co-algebraic foundations.