As many of you know, every year, we have an International Workshop on
Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd.
This is just to let you know that the next CoProd'2016, the 9th
International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision
Making, is scheduled to be in Uppsala, Sweden, on Sunday September
25, 2016, right before the 17th International Symposium on
Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical
Computation SCAN'2016, Uppsala, Sweden, September 26-30, 2016.
Please mark your calendars and plan to come.
We plan to have extended abstracts distributed on site and
published online. Extended versions of selected papers from these
workshop will be considered for edited books published by Springer
Verlag; the first such book (based on previous workshops) appeared
in 2014; the second book has been recently submitted to Springer,
and the third book is in plans.
The details about this series of international workshops can be
found at the CoProd website http://coprod.constraintsolving.com
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Scope:
Constraint programming techniques are important components of
intelligent systems. They constitute a declarative and efficient
methodology to represent and solve many practical problems. They
have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as
scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks
security, chemistry, and biology. Despite the proved usefulness of
these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life
applications. One reason is the perceived lack of effective
communication between constraint programming experts and domain
practitioners about constraints, in general, and their use in
decision making, in particular.
Objectives of CoProD:
* To present advances in constraint solving, optimization,
decision making, and related topics.
* To develop a network of researchers interested in constraint
techniques, in particular researchers and practitioners that
use numeric and symbolic approaches (or a combination of
them) to solve constraint 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. In particular, please note that there is room for
presentation of ideas, as opposed to results only. It also aims at
facilitating networking opportunities as well as
cross-fertilization between the approaches used in the different
attending communities.
Therefore, besides active researchers in decision making and
constraint programming techniques, we expect to have a wide
attendance of domain scientists – whose input is highly valued in
this workshop.
CoProD workshops have the potential to impact communities by
easing collaborations and therefore the emergence of new
techniques, and by creating a network of interest.
Topics of interest (not limited to):
* Programs and algorithms reliability
* Algorithms and applications of:
o Constraint solving, including symbolic-numeric algorithms
and soft constraints
o Optimization: e.g., global, robust, multi-objective
o Interval arithmetic
* Description of domain applications that:
o Require new decision making techniques
o Implement decision making techniques
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The previous editions of CoProD featured invited talks by highly
recognized experts, such as:
* Purushotham Bangalore, CIS department, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
* Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy
* Alessandro Dal Palu, University of Parma, Italy
* Rina Dechter, Information and Computer Sciences, University of
California Irvine
* Juan Carlos Figueroa, Universidad Distrtal de Bogota, Colombia
* Patty Hough, Sandia National Lab, Livermore, California
* Luc Jaulin, The Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees
de Bretagne ENSTA-Bretagne, Brest, France
* Vyacheslav V. Kalashnikov, Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey
(ITESM), Nuevo Leon, Mexico and Central Economics and
Mathematics Institute (CEMI), Moscow, Russia
* Nataliya I. Kalashnykova, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
(UANL), Nuevo Leon, Mexico
* Francois Modave, Texas Tech Health Center, El Paso, Texas
* Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New
Mexico
* James Raynolds, College of Nanoscale and Engineering, SUNY
Albany
* Bart Selman, CS department, Cornell University
* Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Università della Calabria, Italy
* Sergey Shary, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
* Young Jun Son, The University of Arizona, Tucson
* Xiaobai Sun, Duke University
* Leticia Velazquez, The University of Texas at El Paso
Submissions are expected in the form of extended abstracts of at
least 2 pages and no more than 5 pages (in general, closer to 2
pages for ideas, to 5 pages for results), 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 pdf format AND LaTeX format to
mceberio (at) utep (dot) edu. A contact author should be specified
in the submission email. The deadline for submissions is May 1,
2016. Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to participate
and present their work at the workshop.
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Important dates:
* June 1, 2016: deadline for abstract submission
* July 1, 2016: notification of acceptance
* August 1, 2016: camera-ready copy of abstracts due
* September 25, 2016: workshop
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Organization:
Martine Ceberio, University of Texas at El Paso,
mceberio / utep (dot) edu
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso,
vladik / utep (dot) edu
May 21st, 2016 
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