Acquiring both constraint and solution preferences in interactive constraint systems

Constraints

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 311-332

  Rossi, Francesca ^a   Sperduti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Learning; Soft constraints; User interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

FUZZY CONSTRAINTS; LEARNING PHASE; SOFT CONSTRAINTS; USER INTERACTION;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 18744383390     PISSN: 13837133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CONS.0000049206.43218.5f     Document Type: Article

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