Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this.... CALL FOR PAPERS - CP'99 Fifth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming October 11--15, 1999 Alexandria, Virginia, USA http://www.ise.gmu.edu/cp99 Constraints have emerged as the basis of a representational and computational paradigm that draws from many disciplines and can be brought to bear on many problem domains. The conference is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints including algorithms, applications, environments, languages, models, and systems. Contributions are welcome from any discipline concerned with constraints, including artificial intelligence, combinatorial algorithms, computational logic, concurrent computation, databases, discrete mathematics, operations research, programming languages, symbolic computation. We also solicit papers from any domain employing constraints, including computational linguistics, configuration, decision support, design, diagnosis, graphics, hardware verification, molecular biology, planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, resource allocation, robotics, scheduling, software engineering, temporal reasoning, vision, visualization, user interfaces. Papers that bridge disciplines or combine theory and practice are especially welcome. Important dates: Submissions: April 16, 1999 Notification of acceptance: July 2, 1999 Camera-ready papers due: July 31, 1999 Submissions: Submission should be done by sending two emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The first email should have the subject "CP99 Abstract:" followed by the paper title. The body of this first email should contain the title, authors and a short abstract of the paper, all in plain text. The second email should have subject "CP99 Paper:" followed by the paper title. The body of this second email should contain a postscript file, in portable format. All authors must be prepared to send a hardcopy by fast airmail upon request. For authors who are unable to submit electronically, five paper copies can be mailed to the program chair, to arrive by the submission deadline. Publication: The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A special issue of the Constraints journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers) is planned, based on selected papers. Conference site: The conference will be held at Old Town Alexandria which is just minutes from Washington, D.C. by car, bus or metro. Old Town Alexandria is a colonial era seaport, with a revitalized two miles long waterfront. It still has cobblestone streets and many 18th century buildings. This quaint historic town features a centralized shopping district with numerous galleries and boutiques within eight blocks from the hotel. Workshops: Workshops are planned for Friday, Oct 15, 1999. Workshop proposals can be submitted to the workshop chair (to be announced soon) by approximately March 15, 1999. Details will be available soon. Conference Chair Alex Brodsky Dept of Information & Software Engineering George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] +703-993-1529, fax +703-993-1638 Program Chair Joxan Jaffar School of Computing National University of Singapore S16, Lower Kent Ridge Road Singapore 119260 Republic of Singapore [EMAIL PROTECTED] +65-874-6731, fax +65-779-4580 Program Committee TBA Publicity Chair X.Sean Wang Dept of Information & Software Engineering George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] +703-993-1662, fax +703-993-1638 Organizing Committee: A. Borning (Univ. of Washington), J. Cohen (Brandeis Univ.), A. (Univ. of Marseille), E. Freuder, chair (Univ. of New Hampshire), H. Gallaire (Xerox), J.-P. Jouannaud (Univ. of Paris Sud), J.-L. Lassez (New Mexico Tech), M. Maher (Griffith Univ.), U. Montanari (Univ. of Pisa), A. Nerode (Cornell Univ.), J-F. Puget (ILOG), F. Rossi (Univ. of Padova), V. Saraswat (AT&T Research), G. Smolka (DFKI and Univ. Saarlandes), R. Wachter (Office of Naval Research).
