Most of the existing literature on correctional officer job satisfaction examines factors such as leadership, job environment, stress, and the enduring struggle between the keepers and the kept. This study examined the perceived effect of ―care‖ from coworkers on the work of correctional officers. Care is defined as the expression of interest by one or others in another’s life outside of the sc...

The present work would like to illustrate a distributed ("MIMD’) approach solving the constraint satisfaction problem by massive parallelism.

Case adaptation is a complex problem for which no general method has been found. We consider the restricted domain of problems which can be formulated as constraint satisfaction, and propose a general method using dimensionality reduction based on constraint solving and interchangeability.

For the past thirty ve years artiicial intelligence researchers have been studying heuristic search techniques. People writing AI programs have had strong intuitions about what it means for a program to search. Intuitively they classiied programs according to the kinds of search performed. Certain programs, such as matrix multiplication routines, did no search whatsoever. Other programs searche...

Over the past 15 years, researchers have paid increasing attention to the dispositional source of job satisfaction. This research, though not without its controversies, has provided strong evidence that job satisfaction is, in part, dispositionally based. In this article we review past research on dispositional influences on job satisfaction. The two areas most in need of future research attent...

We present an Information Customization framework, which offers a unique hybrid of Adaptive Hypermedia and Constraint Satisfaction methods. IC is being modelled as a constraint satisfaction problem. Information customization involves the generation of personalized information that (a) comprises multiple topic-specific documents deemed relevant to the user-model; (b) satisfies factual, contextua...

Group formation is a key aspect in computer-supported collaborative learning, since different characteristics of students might influence the group performance. In this article, we present an assistant that models group formation as a weighted constraint satisfaction problem (WCSP), and considers three students’ features, namely: psychological styles, team roles and social networks. Our WCSP fo...

While game theory is widely used to model strategic interactions, a natural question is where do the game representations come from? One answer is to learn the representations from data. If one wants to learn both the payoffs and the players’ strategies, a naive approach is to learn them both directly from the data. This approach ignores the fact the players might be playing reasonably good str...

This paper reports recent results on deriving mathematical (periodical) representations of time granularities from more user friendly algebraic expressions. The practical application of these results can be found in using systems for solving multi-granularity temporal constraint satisfaction problems. Indeed, while these systems in principle allow users to specify distance constraints in terms ...