A maximal tractable class of soft constraints

Many researchers in artificial intelligence are beginning to explore the use of soft constraints to express a set of (possibly conflicting) problem requirements. A soft constraint is a function defined on a collection of variables which associates some measure of desirability with each possible comb...

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Main Authors: Cohen, D, Cooper, M, Jeavons, P, Krokhin, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004