Earlier Publications

Year 2004

• Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings. Decision Tradeoff Using Example Critiquing and Constraint Programming. CONSTRAINTS: an International Journal. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 9 (4), pages 289-310, 2004.
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• Boi Faltings, Marc Torrens and Pearl Pu. Solution Generation with Qualitative Models of Preferences. International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications. Blackwell publishing. 20 (2), pages 246-264, May 2004.
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• Paul Janecek and Pearl Pu. Opportunistic Search with Semantic Fisheye Views. In Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2004), Brisbane, Australia, pages 668-680, November 22-24, 2004. 
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• Pearl Pu, Boi Faltings and Marc Torrens. Effective Interaction Principles for Online Product Search Environments. In Proceedings of The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology and Web Intelligence, pages 724-727, September 20-24, 2004. 
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• Li Chen and Pearl Pu. Survey of Preference Elicitation Methods. Technical Report No. IC/200467, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, pages 1-23, August 2004.
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• Jiyong Zhang and Pearl Pu. Survey of Solving Multi-Attribute Decision Problems. Technical Report No. IC/200454, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, pages 1-14, June 2004.
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• Pearl Pu and Pratyush Kumar. Evaluating Example-based Search Tools. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’04), pages 208-217, May 17-20, 2004, New York, USA. 
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• Paul Janecek and Pearl Pu. Opportunistic Search with Semantic Fisheye Views. Technical Report No. IC/200442, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, pages 1-8, May 2004.
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• Patrick Hertzog, Marc Torrens, Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings. Context-aware Computing for Business Traveler Care. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, March 23-26, 2004. 
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• Marc Torrens, Patrick Hertzog, Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings. Towards an Intelligent Mobile Travel Assistant. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-2004), Nicosia, Cyprus, pages 1208-1209, March 14-17, 2004. 
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• Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu, Marc Torrens and Paolo Viappiani. Design Example-Critiquing Interaction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI-2004), ACM Press, pages 22-29, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 2004. 
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Year 2003

• Pearl Pu. Visualization Enabled Mixed Initiative Systems. Technical Report. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2003.
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• Paul Janecek and Pearl Pu. Searching with Semantics: An Interactive Visualization Technique for Exploring an Annotated Image Collection. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Computer Interfaces for Semantic Web and Web Applications (HCI-SWWA ’03), Springer-Verlag, pages 185-196, November 2003. 
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• Pearl Pu, Pratyush Kumar and Boi Faltings. User-Involved Tradeoff Analysis in Configuration Tasks. In workshop notes of the Third International Workshop on User-Interaction in Constraint Satisfaction, Ninth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, pages 85-102, 2003. 
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• Pearl Pu, Boi Faltings and Marc Torrens. User-Involved Preference Elicitation. In workshop notes of the Workshop on Configuration, the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’03), pages 56-63, August 2003. 
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• Pearl Pu and Punit Gupta. Visualizing Reputation and Recommendation in Scientific Literature. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human – Computer Interaction ( HCII ’03), Crete, Greece, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pages 1126-1130, June 2003. 
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• Pearl Pu and Paul Janecek. Visual Interfaces for Opportunistic Information Seeking . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human – Computer Interaction ( HCII ’03 ), Crete, Greece, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pages 1131-1135, June 2003.
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• Punit Gupta and Pearl Pu. Social Cues and Awareness for Recommendation Systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM Press, pages 245-247, January 2003. 
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• Pearl Pu, Xiaofang Zhou and Qing Li (editors). Selected Papers from the Sixth IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems. The Journal of the World Wide Web, Kluwer Academic Publishers. May 2003.

Year 2002

• Paul Janecek and Pearl Pu. Visual Interfaces for Semantic Information. Technical Report. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2002.
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• Paolo Viappiani, Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings. Acquiring User Preferences for Personal Agents. In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium, North Falmouth, MA, FS-02-04, pages 53-59, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 2002.
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• Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings. Effective Interaction Principles for User-Involved Constraint Problem Solving. In workshop notes of the Second International Workshop on User-Interaction in Constraint Satisfaction, the Eighth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, pages 77-91, September 2002. 
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• Paul Janecek and Pearl Pu. A Framework for Designing Fisheye Views to Support Multiple Semantic Contexts. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI ’02), ACM Press, pages 51-58, 2002. 
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• Pearl Pu and Denis Lalanne. Design Visual Thinking Tools for Mixed Initiative Systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM Press, pages 119-126, 2002. 
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• Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings. Personalized Navigation of Heterogeneous Product Spaces using SmartClient. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM Press, pages 212-213, 2002. 
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• Xiaofang Zhou and Pearl Pu (editors).Visual and Multimedia Information Management. Kluwer Academic Publishers, May 2002.
• Marc Torrens, Boi Faltings and Pearl Pu. SmartClient: Constraint Satisfaction as a Paradigm for Scaleable Intelligent Information Systems. CONSTRAINTS: an International Journal. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 7(1), pages 49-69, 2002. 
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Year 2001

• Pearl Pu and George Melissagos. Visualizing Resources and Resource Management. Technical Report. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 2001. 
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• Jurca, A. and Pu, P. Algorithms for Online Vacation Planning. Technical Report. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001.
• Adriana Jurca. Online Travel Planning Survey.Technical Report. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001. 
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• Adriana Jurca. Consumer-Centered Interfaces Customizing Online Travel Planning.Technical Report. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001. 
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• Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings. Contextual Maps for Personalized Navigation of Electronic Catalogs. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2001. 
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Year 2000

• Z. Pecenovic, M. Do, M. Vetterli and P. Pu. Integrated Browsing and Searching of Large Image Collections. In Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Springer Verlag series, pages 279-289, Lyon, France, November 2000. 
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• Pearl Pu and Denis Lalanne. Interactive Problem Solving Via Algorithm Visualization. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2000 (InfoVis 2000), pages 145-154, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 9-10, 2000. 
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• G. Bornet dit Vorgea, P. Pu, R. Clavel, A. Csabai, F. Sprumont, P. Xirouchakis and M.-T. Ivora. MicroCE: Computer-Aided Support for DFMA Conceptual Design Phase. In Proceedings of the 7th ISPE international conference on concurrent engineering, Lyon, France, July 2000.
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• P. Pu and Z. Pecenovic. Dynamic Overview Techniques for Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Joint Eurographics – IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, Amsterdam, May 2000. 
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• P. Pu and B. Faltings. Enriching Buyers’ Experiences: the SmartClient Approach. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, The Hagues, pages 289-296, April 2000. 
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• C. Frei, B. Faltings, G. Melissargos and P. Pu. IconoNET: a Tool for Automated Bandwidth Allocation Planning. In Proceedings of the NOMS 2000, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pages 321-334, Hawaii, April 2000. 
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Before Year 2000

• George Melissargos and Peal Pu. Conceptualizing Bandwidth Allocation in Network Management. In Proceedings of the 1999 workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation (NPIVM’99), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’99), page 62-69, Kansas City, USA, November 1999.
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• Mary Lou Maher and Pearl Pu (editors). Issues and Applications of Case-based Reasoning for Design. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1997.
• P. Pu and L. Purvis. Formalizing the adaptation Process for Case-based Design. In Issues and Applications of Case-based Reasoning in Design. Edited by Mary Lou Maher and Pearl Pu, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey. Pages 221-240, 1997.
• P. Pu and G. Melissargos. Visualizing Resource Allocation Tasks. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. IEEE Computer Society Press. 17 (4), pages 6-9, July/August 1997.
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• G. Melissargos, D. Lalanne and P. Pu. Visualization as Interfacing Tools. In workshop notes of the Swiss Workshop on Collaborative and Distributed Systems, May 2, 1997. 
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• G. Melissargos and P. Pu. Interactive Visualization for Resource Allocation Systems. In Proceedings of the Visual Data Exploration and Analysis IV Conference at the IS&T-SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging ’97, San Jose, California, February 13, 1997. 
• G. Melissargos and P. Pu. Employing interactivity and visualization to augment the process of machine-based rescheduling. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Approximate Reasoning in Scheduling (ARS’97) of the International ICSC Symposium on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (ISFL’97), Zurich, February 11, 1997. 
• P. Pu and D. Lalanne. Human and Machine Collaboration in Creative Design. In Proceedings of the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Budapest, pages 276-282, August 1996. 
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• L. Purvis and P. Pu. Adaptation Using Constraint Satisfaction Techniques. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Case-based Reasoning, Sesimbra, Portugal, pages 289-300, October 1995. 
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• P. Pu and B. Faltings. Multimedia Systems for Design. In workshop notes of the Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, August 1995. 
• P. Pu and L. Purvis. Assembly Planning Using Case Adaptation Methods. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol 1, pages 982-987, Nagoya, Japan, May 1995. 
• Pearl Pu. Sigmund: Would you please stop worrying about the cost? On the interactions between creative designers and intelligent machines. In workshop notes of the second workshop on case-based design systems, the Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID94), pages 39-48, August 1994, Lausanne, Switzerland. 
• P. Pu and L. Purvis. Formalizing Case Adaptation in a Case-based Design System. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID94), pages 77-91, August 15-18, 1994, Lausanne, Switzerland. 
• P. Pu and J.D. Hughes. Integrating AGV Schedules in a Scheduling System for Flexible Manufacturing Environment. In Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 3149-3154, May 8-3, 1994, San Diego, California. 
• Boi Faltings and Pearl Pu. Imagery for open-world spatial problems. Computational Intelligence, special issue on Computational Imagery, 9 (4), pages 372-376, November 1993. 
• Pearl Pu. Issues in Case-Based Design Systems. As the guest editor’s introduction article to a special issue, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AI EDAM), May 1993.
• P. Pu and J.D. Hughes. Solving Scheduling Problems in a Flexible Manufacturing Environment. In workshop notes of the SIGMAN Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Technology, Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 93). 
• P. Pu and Chris Pepin. A Design Methodology for Case-based Design Systems. In Proceedings of the IFIP WG5.2 Workshop on Formal Design Methods for CAD, June 16-19, 1993, Tallinn, Estonia. 
• P. Pu and Y. Huang. Crossroads Diagnosis. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX-92), October 12-15, 1992, Orcas, Island, Washington. 
• P. Pu and Y. Huang. Crossroads Diagnosis. In the Proceedings of the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence, pages 704-708, August 1992, Vienna, Austria.
• Pearl Pu. An Assembly Sequence Generation Algorithm using Case-based Search Techniques. In Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 2425-2430, May 1992, Nice, France.
• Boi Faltings and Pearl Pu. Applying Means-Ends Analysis to Spatial Planning. In Proceedings of the Spring Symposium of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, pages 213-218, March 1992, Stanford, California.
• P. Pu and M. Reschberger. Assembly Sequence Planning using Case-Based Reasoning Techniques. Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 4 No.3, pages 171-187, September 1991. 
• Pearl Pu. Simulating Both Dynamic and Kinematic Behaviors of Mechanisms. The International Journal for Artificial Intelligence in Engineering. 6 (3), pages 136-155, July 1991.  
• Boi Faltings and Pearl Pu. Applying Means-Ends Analysis to Spatial Planning. Intelligent Robotics and Systems’91, Osaka, Japan, pages 80-85, November 3-5, 1991. 
• P. Pu and M. Reschberger. Assembly Sequence Planning Using Case-based Reasoning Techniques. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Artificial, Intelligence in Design, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June 24-27, 1991 (Best Paper Award).
• P. Pu and M. Reschberger. Case-based Assembly Planning. In Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Case-based Reasoning, Washington, D.C., pages 245-254, May 8-10, 1991.
• Pearl Pu. Intelligent CAD Systems: A Synergical Approach of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering. Computational Intelligence: An International Journal. Blackwell publishing. 6(2), pages 81-90, May 1990.  
• P. Pu and N.I. Badler. Design Knowledge Capture and Causal Simulation. In Intelligent CAD Systems, edited by Hiroyuki Yoshikawa and David Gossard, North-Holland, February 1989. 
• P. Denno and P. Pu. A Model for Conceptual Mechanical Design. In Proceedings of the Third IFIF W.G. 5.2 Workshop on Intelligent CAD, Osaka, Japan, September 1989.
• Pearl Pu. Simulating Both Dynamic and Kinematic Behaviors of Mechanisms. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, Stanford, CA, August 1989. 
• Pearl Pu. Extending the Device-Oriented Qualitative Simulation Method to Mechanical Devices. In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Applications, Miami, Florida, pages 29-36, March 1989.
• Pearl Pu. Qualitative Simulation of Ordinary and Intermittent Mechanisms. Ph.D dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, December 1988.  
• P. Pu and N.I. Badler. The Implementation of a Design Knowledge Capturing System. In Proceedings of the Second IFIP W.G. 5.2 Workshop on Intelligent CAD, Cambridge, England, pages 410-415, September 1988. 
• P. Pu and N.I. Badler. Design Knowledge Capturing for Device Behavior Reasoning. Artificial Intelligence in Engineering: Design, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, Stanford, CA, pages 37-56, August 1988. 
• P. Pu and N.I. Badler. Design Knowledge Capture and Causal Simulation. In Proceedings of the First IFIP W.G. 5.2 Workshop on Intelligent CAD, Cambridge, MA, October 1987.