The term 'soft constraint' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that is not absolute or rigid, but more flexible and open to interpretation. For example, "Since the deadline for this project is a soft constraint, we can adjust it to fit our team's schedule."
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified.
In this paper we present a proposal for representing soft constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) within the Semantic Web architecture.
In another viewpoint, the feasibility issue of the on-line optimization with output soft constraint is analyzed.
Recently, a general definition of arc consistency (AC) for soft constraint frameworks has been proposed by T. Schiex [Proc. CP-2000, Singapore, 2000, pp. 411 424].
It is known since the introduction of valued and semi-ring constraint networks in 1995 that the notion of local consistency can be extended to constraint optimisation problems defined by soft constraint frameworks based on an idempotent cost combination operator.
Local Search LSstrategiesies were developed and embedded into BWAS and BWACS to enhance their efficiency and to help find the best timetable with the lowest number of soft constraint violations.
In the hierarchy of instrumentation and control, it is often operated between the soft constraint and the hard constraint and, in terms of control theory, it is a logic-based switching system.
In the strategy, according to the constraints relaxation technique from MPC technology, a soft-constraint based online FTC design method is developed to explicitly handle the multi-objective requirements of the performance constraints.
From Lin algorithm, a new algorithm termed soft-constraint satisfaction multimodulus algorithm (SCS-MMA) was derived by relaxing the constraints defined by Lin using principle of soft-constraint satisfaction (SCS) [14].
In this work, a novel frequency domain soft-constraint satisfaction multimodulus blind algorithm (FDSCS-MMA) is developed and proposed.
In this paper, we have implemented a novel frequency domain soft-constraint multimodulus algorithm for single carrier.
