11th Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints

September 12, 2011 University of Perugia, Italy

Workshop OrganizersMaria Silvia PiniUniversità di Padova, ItalyFrancesco SantiniUniversità degli Studi di Perugia, ItalyK. Brent VenableUniversità di Padova, Italy

Programme CommitteeStefano Bistarelli (Italy)Simon de Givry (France) Jimmy Lee (Hong Kong)Inês Lynce (Portugal)Felip Manya (Spain)Joao Marques-Silva (Ireland)

Pedro Meseguer (Spain)Barry O'Sullivan (Ireland) Emma Rollon (Spain) Francesca Rossi (Italy)Toby Walsh (Australia)Nic Wilson (Ireland)

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Mahuna Akplogan, Jerome Dury, Simon De Givry, Gauthier Quesnel, Alexandre Joannon, Arnaud Reynaud, Jacques Eric Bergez and Frederick Garcia.

A Weighted CSP approach for solving spatio-temporal planning problem in farming systems

09:50 Broes Cat, Gerda Janssens and Marc Denecker.Regularity Requirements in University Course Timetabling

10:25 Coffee Break

10:55 Emma Rollon, Natalia Flerova and Rina Dechter.Inference Schemes for M Best Solutions for Soft CSPs

11:30 Rina Dechter and Natalia Flerova.Searching for m Best Solutions

12:05 Conor O'Mahony and Nic Wilson.Sorted-Pareto Dominance: an extension to the Pareto Dominance relation and its application in Soft

Constraints

12:35 Lunch Break

14:00 Venkatesh Ramamoorthy, Marius Silaghi, Toshihiro Matsui, Katsutoshi Hirayama and Makoto Yokoo.Soft Nonlinearity Constraints and their Lower-Arity Decomposition

14:35 Wady Naanaa.Domain permutation reduction for Valued CSPs

15:10 Audun Jøsang.Preference Combination using Subjective Logic

15:40 Coffee Break

16:10 Marc Pujol-Gonzalez, Jesus Cerquides, Pedro Meseguer and Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar.Two-sided function filtering

16:45 Christian Bessiere, Patrice Boizumault, Simon De Givry, Patricia Guttiriez, Samir Loudni, Jean-Philippe Métivier and Thomas Schiex.

Decomposing Global Cost Functions

17:20 Open Discussion

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