Michael Abseher, M. Gebser, Nysret Musliu, Torsten Schaub, S. Woltran
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引用次数: 31
Abstract
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a powerful declarative programming paradigm that has been successfully applied to many different domains. Recently, ASP has also proved successful for hard optimization problems like course timetabling. In this paper, we approach another important task, namely, the shift design problem, aiming at an alignment of a minimum number of shifts in order to meet required numbers of employees (which typically vary for different time periods) in such a way that over- and understaffing is minimized. We provide an ASP encoding of the shift design problem, which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been addressed by ASP yet.
期刊介绍:
Fundamenta Informaticae is an international journal publishing original research results in all areas of theoretical computer science. Papers are encouraged contributing:
solutions by mathematical methods of problems emerging in computer science
solutions of mathematical problems inspired by computer science.
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theory of computing,
complexity theory,
algorithms and data structures,
computational aspects of combinatorics and graph theory,
programming language theory,
theoretical aspects of programming languages,
computer-aided verification,
computer science logic,
database theory,
logic programming,
automated deduction,
formal languages and automata theory,
concurrency and distributed computing,
cryptography and security,
theoretical issues in artificial intelligence,
machine learning,
pattern recognition,
algorithmic game theory,
bioinformatics and computational biology,
quantum computing,
probabilistic methods,
algebraic and categorical methods.