An extension of constraint logic programming that allows for weighted partial satisfaction of
soft constraints is described and applied to the development of an automated timetabling …

Constraint programming is an approach for solving (mostly combinatorial) problems by
stating constraints over the problem variables. In some problems, there is no solution …

The paper deals with a scheduling problem: the computation of class–teacher timetables.
Two cases are taken into consideration: high school problems and university department …

A key impediment to the widespread adoption of Web services is the relatively limited set of
tools available to deal with quality-of-service (QoS) factors (Ran, 2003). QoS factors pose …

The main contribution of this research is to provide platform-independent means to support
reliability design following the principles of a model driven approach. The contribution aims …

Non-functional requirements are critical in web engineering applications, but often ignored.
Usually, these are articulated as statements of objectives, as opposed to prepositional …

This dissertation proposes a methodology to manage business process design in a dynamic
organizational context primarily by using i* modeling framework and Business Process …

The objective of this paper is to present the grand schemes of a model to be used in an
agricultural Decision support System. We start by explaining and justifying the need for a …

This paper focuses on the problem of preference satisfaction in service planning of a group
of service robots, especially on how to realize a feedback architecture for enhance service …

This paper proposes a general answer for the timetabling problem in most schools around
the world. Most heuristic solutions from literature proposed methodologies were based on …