This book introduces novel methodological approaches to discrete optimization, providing both theoretical insights and algorithmic discoveries which lead to improvements over state-of-the-art technolo
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This book represents a significant step towards bridging the areas of Boolean satisfiability and constraint satisfaction by providing theoretical explanations for why SAT-solvers are efficient on cert
The author investigates how to produce realistic and workable ethical codes or regulations in this rapidly developing field to address the immediate and realistic longer-term issues facing us. She spe
This is the first comprehensive treatment of subjective logic and all its operations. The author developed the approach, and in this book he first explains subjective opinions, opinion representation,
This book offers a coherent and comprehensive approach to feature subset selection in the scope of classification problems, explaining the foundations, real application problems and the challenges of
This book introduces a novel approach to discrete optimization, providing both theoretical insights and algorithmic developments that lead to improvements over state-of-the-art technology. The authors
