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Temporal constraint networks

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It is shown that the STP, which subsumes the major part of Vilain and Kautz's point algebra, can be solved in polynomial time and the applicability of path consistency algorithms as preprocessing of temporal problems is studied, to demonstrate their termination and bound their complexities.
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This article is published in Artificial Intelligence.The article was published on 1991-05-01. It has received 1989 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Constraint satisfaction problem & Constraint satisfaction.

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Mixed discrete-continuous heuristic generative planning based on flow tubes

TL;DR: Scotty is introduced, a mixed discrete-continuous generative planner that finds the middle ground between these two temporal planners, and exploits the expressivity of flow tubes, which compactly encapsulate continuous effects, and the performance of heuristic forward search.
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Time representation and management in MADEUS: an authoring environment for multimedia documents

TL;DR: The currently achieved results of the research goal are presented: building an easy to use and powerful multimedia documents authoring environment, which provides high level of expressiveness and open document format.
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Robust execution of contingent, temporally flexible plans

TL;DR: The plan extraction component of a robust, distributed executive for contingent plans is introduced, which reduces the computational load on each agent and tests the temporal consistency of each candidate plan using a distributed Bellman-Ford algorithm.
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HYBRID PROBLEM SOLVING IN ECLiPSe

TL;DR: This chapter shows how the hybrid search can be elegantly programmed in ECLiPSe through an implementation of a generic hybrid algorithm applied on a general resource-constrained scheduling problem with a widely applicable objective function.
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Free schedules for free agents in workflow systems

TL;DR: The paper provides a method to characterize all the free schedules admitted by a workflow specification and an algorithm to derive them, and identifies a particularly useful class: free schedules.
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The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms

TL;DR: This text introduces the basic data structures and programming techniques often used in efficient algorithms, and covers use of lists, push-down stacks, queues, trees, and graphs.
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Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals

James F. Allen
- 01 Mar 1991 - 
TL;DR: An interval-based temporal logic is introduced, together with a computationally effective reasoning algorithm based on constraint propagation, which is notable in offering a delicate balance between space and time.
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Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals

TL;DR: In this paper, an interval-based temporal logic is introduced, together with a computationally effective reasoning algorithm based on constraint propagation, which is notable in offering a delicate balance between time and space.
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Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity

TL;DR: This clearly written, mathematically rigorous text includes a novel algorithmic exposition of the simplex method and also discusses the Soviet ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming; efficient algorithms for network flow, matching, spanning trees, and matroids; the theory of NP-complete problems; approximation algorithms, local search heuristics for NPcomplete problems, more.
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Consistency in Networks of Relations

TL;DR: The primary aim is to provide an accessible, unified framework, within which to present the algorithms including a new path consistency algorithm, to discuss their relationships and the may applications, both realized and potential of network consistency algorithms.