SICS is investigating a new generation of languages for symbolic processing that are based on the paradigm of concurrent constraint programming A wide range of pertinent topics are being studied In particular our e orts are devoted to producing a high quality programming environment based on the Andorra Kernel Language AKL a general purpose concurrent constraint language

SICS is investigating a new generation of languages for symbolic processing that are based on the paradigm of concurrent constraint programming. A wide range of pertinent topics are being studied. In particular our eeorts are devoted to producing a high quality programming environment based on the Andorra Kernel Language (AKL), a general purpose concurrent constraint language.

SICS is investigating a new generation of languages for symbolic processing that are based on the paradigm of concurrent constraint programming. A wide range of pertinent topics are being studied. In particular our eeorts are devoted to producing a high quality programming environment based on the Andorra Kernel Language (AKL), a general purpose concurrent constraint language.

Classical meta-heuristic methods for solving rostering problems focus on defining measures of roster quality. Here we present a new case-based reasoning approach to generating repairs of hard constraint violations using expert-human experience. This approach is used to guide heuristic constraint satisfaction algorithms, eliminating the need to explicitly define search objectives.

Sequential multi-constraint graph partitioning algorithms have been developed to address the load balancing requirements of multi-phase simulations. The e cient execution of large multi-phase simulations on high performance parallel computers requires that the multi-constraint partitionings are computed in parallel. This paper presents a parallel formulation of a recently developed multi-constr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of constraint-induced movement therapy in acute and sub-acute stroke. DATA SOURCES The key words were stroke, cerebrovascular accident, constraint-induced therapy, forced use, and randomized controlled trial. The databases, including China National Knowledge Infrastructure, WanFang, Weipu Information Resources Syste...

In the last decade, theory of constraint application in project management lead to make a new approach for project scheduling and control as a critical chain. In this paper, a multi-objective optimization model for multi-project scheduling on critical chain is investigated. The objectives include time, cost and quality. In order to solve the problem, a Simulated Annealing algorithm is developed...

the changing of round and back vowel /u/ to unround and front vowel [i] occurs in lori dialects as well as some other persian dialects. this vowel change includes both unrounding and fronting. this paper aimed at coming up with an inclusive ranking of constraints to explain occurrence and nonoccurrence of this vowel change in various phonological environments in silahkori dialect within optimal...

Result diversification is an important aspect in web-based search, document summarization, facility location, portfolio management and other applications. Given a set of ranked results for a set of objects (e.g. web documents, facilities, etc.) with a distance between any pair, the goal is to select a subset S satisfying the following three criteria: (a) the subset S satisfies some constraint (...

Dependency cohesion refers to the observation that phrases dominated by disjoint dependency subtrees in the source language generally do not overlap in the target language. It has been verified to be a useful constraint for word alignment. However, previous work either treats this as a hard constraint or uses it as a feature in discriminative models, which is ineffective for large-scale tasks. ...