CP 2011 - Call for Participation

by CP2011_publicity, Aug. 11, 2011

The CP conference is the annual international conference on constraint programming. It is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, and agreement technologies.

                             Call for Participation

                                   CP 2011

                   Seventeenth International Conference on

               Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

                           September 12-16, 2011

                              Perugia, Italy

                      http://www.dmi.unipg.it/cp2011/

    ** Registration at reduced rate available before September 4, 2011 **

             RAFFLE with an iPad 2 as prize and finger foods at 

                      the end of conference on Friday

The CP conference is the annual international conference on constraint

programming.  It is concerned with all aspects of computing with

constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models,

systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, and

agreement technologies.

CP 2011 will feature pre-conference workshops and a 4-day technical program

packed with invited talks, award-winning paper presentations, presentations

by winners of the ACP Research Excellence and Doctoral Research Awards,

research and application track sessions, tutorials, a panel on the future

of CP, and a Doctoral Program.

The organizers also promise a unique Italian and Perugian experience in

terms of social events, including a welcome reception in Rocca Paolina, an

excursion and conference banquet in medieval Assisi, a jazz evening at the

National Gallery Museum and, last but not the least, wine and drinks and a

raffle at the end of the conference with an iPad 2 as one of the prizes.

Please make sure that you stay until the end of the conference.

Invited Speakers

- Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft

  Orchestrating Satisfiability Engines

- Laurent Perron, Google

  Operations Research and Constraint Programming at Google

- Jean-Charles Regin, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

  Solving Problems with CP: Four Common Pitfalls to Avoid

Panel on "The Future of CP"

- Organizer and Moderator: Francesca Rossi

- Confirmed Panelists

  - Gene Freuder

  - Jimmy Lee

  - Barry O'Sullivan

  - Meinolf Sellman

  - Toby Walsh

  - And more ...

Tutorials

- Automatic Solver Configuration and Solver Portfolios

  Meinolf Sellmann (IBM, USA)

- Integer Programming for Constraint Programmers

  Chris Beck (University of Toronto, Canada), Timo Berdhold, Ambros

Gleixner,

  Stefan Heinz, Kati Wolter (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany)

- Machine Learning and Data Mining: Challenges and Opportunities for

  Constraint Programming

  Luc De Raedt, Siegfried Nijssen (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)

Workshops

- Soft'11: Preferences and Soft Constraints

- LSCS 2011: Local Search Techniques in Constraint Satisfaction

- WCB11: Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics

- Lococo 2011: Logics for Component Configuration

- SymCon'11: Symmetry in Constraint Satisfaction Problems

- ModRef 2011: Constraint Modelling and Reformulation

- PMCS'11: Parallel Methods for Constraint Solving

- MZN 2011: MiniZinc

Registration and accommodation information can be found on the conference

website.

We look forward to seeing you all in Perugia.

Best regards,

Stefano Bistarelli

Conference Chair, CP 2011

Jimmy Lee

Program Chair, CP 2011