Constraint programming and decision making [electronic resource] / Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, editors.

Constraint programming and decision making [electronic resource] / Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, editors.

9783319042800 electronic book
3319042807 electronic book
9783319042794

Cham : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-319-04280-0 doi

QA76.612

005.1/16

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).

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

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