Constraint Programming and Decision Making

✍ Scribed by Ceberio, Martine; Kreinovich, Vladik

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 133
• Series: Studies in Systems Decision and Control
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes new algorithms and ideas for making effective decisions under constraints, including applications in control engineering, manufacturing (how to optimally determine the production level), econometrics (how to better predict stock market behavior), and environmental science and geosciences (how to combine data of different types). It also describes general algorithms and ideas that can be used in other application areas.

The book presents extended versions of selected papers from the annual International Workshops on Constraint Programming and Decision Making (CoProd’XX) from 2013 to 2016. These workshops, held in the US (El Paso, Texas) and in Europe (Würzburg, Germany, and Uppsala, Sweden), have attracted researchers and practitioners from all over the world.

It is of interest to practitioners who benefit from the new techniques, to researchers who want to extend the ideas from these papers to new application areas and/or further improve the corresponding algorithms, and to graduate students who want to learn more – in short, to anyone who wants to make more effective decisions under constraints.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Why Deep Neural Networks: A Possible Theoretical Explanation (Chitta Baral, Olac Fuentes, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 1-5
Abstract Argumentation Frameworks to Promote Fairness and Rationality in Multi-experts Multi-criteria Decision Making (Stefano Bistarelli, Martine Ceberio, Joel A. Henderson, Francesco Santini)....Pages 7-19
Constraint Approach to Multi-objective Optimization (Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 21-25
From Global to Local Constraints: A Constructive Version of Bloch’s Principle (Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 27-32
Optimizing pred(25) Is NP-Hard (Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 33-37
Range Estimation Under Constraints Is Computable Unless There Is a Discontinuity (Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 39-44
Towards a Physically Meaningful Definition of Computable Discontinuous and Multi-valued Functions (Constraints) (Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 45-49
Algebraic Product is the only T-norm for Which Optimization Under Fuzzy Constraints is Scale-Invariant (Juan Carlos Figueroa-García, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 51-54
Comparing Operation Points in Linear Programming with Fuzzy Constraints (Juan Carlos Figueroa-García, Germán Hernández-Pérez, Dusko Kalenatic)....Pages 55-66
On Modeling Multi-experts Multi-criteria Decision-Making Argumentation and Disagreement: Philosophical and Computational Approaches Reconsidered (Luciana Garbayo, Martine Ceberio, Stefano Bistarelli, Joel Henderson)....Pages 67-75
Positive Semidefiniteness and Positive Definiteness of a Linear Parametric Interval Matrix (Milan Hladík)....Pages 77-88
Automatic Loop-Shaping of ({H_\infty })/(\mu ) Problem in QFT Using Interval Consistency Based Hybrid Optimization (R. Jeyasenthil, P. S. V. Nataraj, Harsh Purohit)....Pages 89-94
Existence of the Nash-Optimal Strategies in the Meta-Game (Vyacheslav V. Kalashnikov, Vladimir A. Bulavsky, Nataliya I. Kalashnykova)....Pages 95-100
Peak-End Rule: A Utility-Based Explanation (Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 101-106
Similarity Approach to Defining Basic Level of Concepts Explained from the Utility Viewpoint (Joe Lorkowski, Martin Trnecka)....Pages 107-111
Comparisons of Measurement Results as Constraints on Accuracies of Measuring Instruments: When can we Determine the Accuracies from These Constraints? (Christian Servin, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 113-122
Dow Theory’s Peak-and-Trough Analysis Justified (Chrysostomos D. Stylios, Vladik Kreinovich)....Pages 123-128