CPAIOR'04 : LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
From: Michel Rueher (rueher_at_essi.fr)
Date: 01/05/04
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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:24:36 +0100
L A S T C A L L F O R P A P E R S
International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques
in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimisation Problems
CP-AI-OR'04
April 20-22, 2004, Nice, France
http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin/cpaior04/
cpaior04@sophia.inria.fr
This new conference follows the series of CP-AI-OR International Workshops on
Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial
Optimisation Problems held in Ferrara (1999), Paderborn (2000), Ashford (2001),
Le Croisic (2002), and Montreal (2003).
The success of the previous workshops has demonstrated that CP-AI-OR is
becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and methodologies from both fields.
The aim of this new conference is to bring together interested researchers from
AI and OR, and to give them the opportunity to show how the integration of
techniques from AI and OR can lead to interesting results on large scale and
complex problems. We explicitly welcome new ideas and methods for integrating
OR and AI techniques that have arisen from real-world applications.
The integration of techniques from Artificial Intelligence and Operations
Research has provided effective algorithms for tackling complex and large scale
combinatorial problems with significant improvements in terms of efficiency,
scalability and optimality. The benefit of this integration has been shown in
applications such as hoist scheduling, rostering, dynamic scheduling and
vehicle routing. At the programming/modelling level, most constraint languages
embed OR techniques to reason about collections of constraints, so-called
global constraints. Some languages also provide support for hybridization
allowing the programmer to build new integrated algorithms. The resulting
multi-paradigm programming framework combines the flexibility and modelling
facilities of Constraint Programming with the special purpose and efficient
methods from Operations Research.
CP-AI-OR is intended primarily as a forum to focus on the integration of the
approaches of CP, AI, and OR technologies. A secondary aim is to provide an
opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about techniques in others.
Therefore, papers that actively combine, integrate or contrast approaches
from more than one of the areas and papers describing scientific advances in
a single area are solicited.
The programm committee invites submissions that include but are not
limited to the following topics:
- Integration of constraint relaxation methods, eg: Constraint propagation,
Cutting planes, Reduced costs, Global constraints, Graph algorithms,
Dynamic programming, Lagrangean and convex relaxations.
- Integration of search and solving methods, eg: Branch and bound,
Intelligent backtracking, Incomplete search, Randomized search,
Column generation and other decomposition methods, Local search,
Meta-heuristics.
- Forms of integration, eg: Static/dynamic problem decomposition,
Linking variables and constraints in different solvers,
Transformations between models and solvers,
Methods using information derived by other solving methods,
Collaboration between concurrent methods, models and solvers.
- Problems, modelling, and applications.
The 2004 conference is organized by INRIA (french national institute
for research in computer science and control). It will take place in
Nice, France on April 20-22.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR AUTHORS
(THE DEADLINES ARE STRICT DUE TO PUBLISHER CONSTRAINTS)
Deadline for paper submissions January 9, 2004
Notification of acceptance February 1, 2004
Final paper due February 14, 2004
CP-AI-OR'04 April 20-22, 2004
The length of standard technical paper is 15 pages. However, CPAIOR is
interested in promoting a wide variety of opportunities for fruitful exchange
among the CP, OR and AI communities. Researchers are thus invited to submit
late-breaking results in the form of short papers (up to 6 pages). Short papers
should present interesting recent results or novel thought-provoking ideas that
are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. A presentation will be
scheduled in the conference program for the accepted short papers. They will
also be published in the Conference Proceedings.
All Papers are to be submitted electronically by following the instructions
at the URL http://www-sop.inria.fr/coprin/cpaior04/submit.html.
The publication of the proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) is planned.
Authors are requested to prepare their papers by following the
Springer instructions (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Before the conference, a master class for PhD students, researchers and
practitioners will be organized by Andrea Lodi and Michela Milano
(University of Bologna). The topic of the master class will be
"Graph Theory and Constraint Programming". Speakers will be announced
soon.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM CHAIRS
Jean-Charles Regin, ILOG Sophia Antipolis
Michel Rueher, Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Abderrahmane Aggoun, Cosytec, France
Philippe Baptiste, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic
Chris Beck, Cork Constraint Computation Center, Ireland
Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden
Alain Colmerauer, Univ. of Marseille, France
Hani El Sakkout, Parc Technologies, UK
Bernard Gendron, CRT and Univ. of Montreal, Canada
Carmen Gervet, IC-Parc, UK
Carla Gomes, Cornell University, USA
Narendra Jussien, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Stefan Karisch, Carmen Systems, Canada
Francois Laburthe, Bouygues, France
Olivier Lhomme, ILOG, France
Michela Milano, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
George Nemhauser, Univ. of Georgia Tech, USA
Gilles Pesant, CRT and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Jean-Charles Regin (chair), ILOG, France
Michel Rueher (chair), Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Meinolf Sellmann, Cornell University, USA
Christian Schulte, KTH, Sweden
Sven Thiel, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Gilles Trombettoni, Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA
Mark Wallace, IC-Parc, UK
MASTER CLASS ORGANIZERS
Andrea Lodi, Univ. of Bologna
Michela Milano, Univ. of Bologna
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Claude Michel, Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Dany Sergeant (secretary), INRIA Sophia Antipolis
CONFERENCE SITE
The conference will take place in the heart of Nice, at the Westminster
Hotel (http://www.westminster-nice.com) located on the Promenades des Anglais
facing the sea.
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