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From: Ceberio, Martine ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS CoProD'09 Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making sponsored by NSF (CCF) http://coprod.constraintsolving.com UTEP, El Paso, Texas November 9-10, 2009 Updated deadline: Sept. 28, 2009 ================================================================= CoProD'09 is the second edition of CoProD. CoProD'08 was held successfully in October 2008 at UTEP, bringing together about 30 researchers from constraint programming, optimization, and domain scientists. ================================================================= Constraint programming techniques are important components of intelligent systems. They constitute a nice and easy way to represent many practical situations. They have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks security, chemistry. Despite the proved usefulness of these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life projects. One reason might be the lack of effective communication of researchers with domain practitioners about constraints in general and their use in decision making in particular. Objectives of CoProD: * To draw together a network of researchers interested in constraint techniques, in particular researchers and practitioners that use numeric and symbolic approaches (or a combination) to solve constraints and optimization problems. * To address the gap between the great capacity of these techniques and their limited use. CoProD aims at encouraging presentation and discussion of on-going work. It also aims at facilitating networking opportunities as well as cross-fertilization between the approaches used in the different attending communities. Therefore, besides participants who participates in research in decision making / constraint programming techniques, we expect to have a wide attendance of domain scientists for their input is extremely valued in this workshop. Expected outcomes of CoProD: * Definition of new directions for combining numeric and symbolic approaches in solving constraints and optimization problems in particular and in decision making in general. * Definition of new representations and abstractions (such as tensors) that are expected to enhance solving techniques and collaborations. * Better connection between actual practitioners and researchers in constraints and decision making. CoProD'09 has the potential to impact these communities by easing collaborations and therefore the emergence of new techniques, and by creating a network of interest. The objectives of CoProD are also relayed all year round through the website constraintsolving.com. Special emphasis: Although topics are by no mean restricted to the following, this year's edition of CoProD wants to specifically emphasize the topic of tensors as a means to enhance existing solving algorithms and generate new ones. Topics of interest (not limited to): * Programs and algorithms reliability * Algorithms and applications of: o Constraint solving, including symbolic-numeric algorithms o Optimization: e.g., global, robust, multi-objective o Tensors o Interval arithmetic * Description of domain applications that: o Require new decision making techniques o Implement decision making techniques Invited Speakers: * Carla Gomes, CS department, Cornell University * Rina Dechter, Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine * Purushotham Bangalore, CIS department, University of Alabama at Birmingham * James Raynolds, College of Nanoscale and Engineering, SUNY Albany * Francois Modave, CS department, Central Washington University Proceedings / Publication: A book of abstracts will be printed and provided to each registered participant. After the workshop, the program committee will invite the authors to submit a full article version of their work to be published (after a review process) in a Springer book series. Participation / Submission: Participation is encouraged from people doing research in the area of decision making as well as from domain scientists. Submissions are expected in the form of extended abstracts of at least 2 pages and no more than 5 pages, formatted using the standard LNCS/LNAI format (see instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The title page should include the name, address, and email address of each author as well as a list of keywords. Submissions have to be sent in postscript or pdf format AND latex format as well to mceberio (at) utep (dot) edu <mailto:[email protected]> . A contact author should be specified in the submission email. The deadline for submissions is September 28th Registration: At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. Registration fees are as follows: Early registration Late registration Regular fee $50 $100 Students' fee $25 $70 Early registration is until October 20, 2009, and late registration anytime after that. Important dates: September 28: abstract submission October 5: notification of acceptance October 20: camera-ready copy of abstracts due AND end of early registration November 9-10: workshop Organization Main Organizer: Martine Ceberio, mceberio (at) utep (dot) edu. Student Organizers: Paden Portillo, Adrian Franco --- Martine Ceberio Assistant Professor Computer Science Department University of Texas at El Paso email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]://www.cs.utep.edu/mceberiohttp://www.constraintsolving.comtel> http://www.cs.utep.edu/mceberio <mailto:[email protected]://www.cs.utep.edu/mceberiohttp://www.constraintsolving.comtel> http://www.constraintsolving.com <mailto:[email protected]://www.cs.utep.edu/mceberiohttp://www.constraintsolving.comtel> tel <mailto:[email protected]://www.cs.utep.edu/mceberiohttp://www.constraintsolving.comtel> : 915 747 6950 fax: 915 747 5030
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