International Conference on Principles and Practice of
Constraint Programming (CP2003) - Kinsale,County Cork, Ireland

WORKSHOP on IMMEDIATE APPLICATIONS of CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING

      **** submission deadline is July 25th, 2003 ****

http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/Conferences/cp03acp/

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THEME:
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Constraint Satisfaction is a successful paradigm that can be used for
developing general techniques to be applied to any satisfaction problem,
namely combinatorial problems where any combination of decisions
satisfying a set of constraints is acceptable as a solution.

It is known that different tricks and techniques allow for many other
types of problems to be addressed with methods imported from Constraint
Satisfaction. We mainly think about optimization problems and
overconstrained problems. Constraint Satisfaction Problems are also more
or less independent subparts of very large or even intricate problems.

The workshop addresses modeling and techniques in immediate industrial
applications of Constraint Satisfaction. Application areas include but
are not limited to computer graphics and computer vision, natural
language processing, database systems, operations research, engineering,
bioinformatics as well as business applications (e.g. configuration,
recommender systems, user interaction, planning & scheduling, resource
management). In this context scientific issues to be discussed at the
workshop include:

* techniques for helping the modeling of real problems
* applications of centralized CSPs
* extended frameworks needed for addressing real issues
* working algorithms for solving real CSP applications
* distributed CSPs and their applications
* privacy issues in CSPs
* tools that proved their successful applicability

The continuous technical advances in CSPs lead to a technology that fits
more and more real applications. This workshop will provide an
opportunity for researchers to continue progress towards a common
understanding as well as to present successful applications in practice.

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SUBMISSIONS
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Submission deadline is July 25th, 2003. Submitted papers shall be
written in English, up to 22 pages. Papers are expected in Postscript or
PDF format. The submitted papers have to be sent electronically to
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strongly encourage electronic submissions, but if this is impossible, a
hard copy may be sent by post to the contact address :
Markus Zanker,
Computer Science and Manufacturing, University Klagenfurt,
Universitaetsstrasse 65-67, A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
Tel: +43-463-2700-3753 Fax: +43-463-2700-3799

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IMPORTANT DATES
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July 25th, 2003: Deadline for submissions
August 10th, 2003: Acceptance/rejection notification
August 24th, 2003: Deadline for camera ready papers.

Conference Dates: September 30th, 2003 - October 3rd, 2003
Workshop Date: September 29th, 2003

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PROCEEDINGS
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As for the main conference authors are requested to prepare their papers
by following the Springer instructions. Workshop papers will be
published in workshop notes as well as on the Web. If enough
high-quality papers are submitted, the organizers intent to publish
revised versions of the best papers in a special issue of a journal.

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REGISTRATION
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Registration for the Applications of Constraint Programming workshop is
possible for all participants of the CP-2003 conference. Authors of
(accepted) papers are given priority, then the participants are accepted
in the order in which they have expressed their interest.

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ORGANISATION
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Organizers and Workshop Chairs
Marius-Calin Silaghi
Computer Science Department, Florida Institute of Technology,
Melbourne, FL-32901, US
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Tel: +1 321 674-7493 Fax: +1 321 674-7046

Markus Zanker
Computer Science and Manufacturing, University Klagenfurt,
A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
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Tel: +43-463-2700-3753 Fax: +43-463-2700-3799

Program Committee:
Roman Bartak, Charles University, [log in to unmask]
Frederic Benhamou, University of Nantes,
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Berthe Choueiry, UNL, [log in to unmask]
Joerg Denzinger, University Calgary, [log in to unmask]
Boi Faltings, EPFL, [log in to unmask]
Alexander Felfernig, University Klagenfurt, [log in to unmask]
Christian Frei, ABB Switzerland, [log in to unmask]
Gerhard Friedrich, University Klagenfurt, Austria,
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Dietmar Jannach, University Klagenfurt, [log in to unmask]
Pedro Meseguer, IIIA, [log in to unmask]
Debasis Mitra, FIT,[log in to unmask]
Christian Russ, ConfigWorks, [log in to unmask]
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia,
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Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, [log in to unmask]
Franz Wotawa, Technical University Graz, [log in to unmask]

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SPONSORS
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The following commercial institutions help in the organization of the
Workshop:
ABB Switzerland SA, http://www.abb.com
ConfigWorks Informationssysteme & Consulting GmbH,
http://www.configworks.com
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