Constraint programming and decision making
By: Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, editors
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence -- volume 539; Studies in computational intelligence -- v.539.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783319042794
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Constraint programming (Computer science); Decision making; Data processing
Description: In many application areas, it is necessary to make effective decisions under constraints. Several area-specific techniques are known for such decision problems; however, because these techniques are area-specific, it is not easy to apply each technique to other applications areas. Cross-fertilization between different application areas is one of the main objectives of the annual International Workshops on Constraint Programming and Decision Making. Those workshops, held in the US (El Paso, Texas), in Europe (Lyon, France), and in Asia (Novosibirsk, Russia), from 2008 to 2012, have attracted researchers and practitioners from all over the world. This volume presents extended versions of selected papers from those workshops. These papers deal with all stages of decision making under constraints: (1) formulating the problem of multi-criteria decision making in precise terms, (2) determining when the corresponding decision problem is algorithmically solvable; (3) finding the corresponding algorithms, and making these algorithms as efficient as possible; and (4) taking into account interval, probabilistic, and fuzzy uncertainty inherent in the corresponding decision making problems. The resulting application areas include environmental studies (selecting the best location for a meteorological tower), biology (selecting the most probable evolution history of a species), and engineering (designing the best control for a magnetic levitation train).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and author index.