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Now available: the program of CoProD and the book of abstracts.

Constraint programming and decision-making techniques are essential in the building of intelligent systems. They constitute an efficient approach to representing and solving 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. However, 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. CoProD aims at bridging this gap and at bringing communities together.

CoProD'13 will be held on November 1 and 2, 2013 at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Objectives and expected outcomes of CoProD

CoProD aims to bring together, from areas closely related to decision making, researchers who design solutions to decision-making problems and researchers who need these solutions and likely already use some solutions. Both communities are often not connected enough to allow cross-fertilization of ideas and practical applications.

CoProD aims at facilitating networking opportunities and cross-fertilization of ideas 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 and participation of domain scientists - whose participation and input is highly valued in this workshop.

The goal of CoProD is therefore to constitute a forum for inter-community building. The objectives of this forum are to facilitate:

• The presentation of advances in constraint solving, optimization, decision making, and related topics;
• The development of 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;
• The gap bridging between the great capacity of the latest decision-making/constraint techniques and their limited use.

CoProD 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.

Note: CoProD encourages presentations and discussion of on-going work. In particular, there is room for presentations of ideas, as opposed to results only.

Topics of interest

Although topics are by no mean restricted to the following, this year’s edition of CoProD wants to specifically emphasize global optimization as well as the use of combined constraint programming/decision making to life science problems.
Other topics of interest include:

• Programs and algorithms reliability
• Algorithms and applications of:
• Constraint solving, including symbolic-numeric algorithms
• Optimization: e.g., global, robust, multi-objective
• Tensors
• Interval arithmetic
• Description of domain applications that:
• Require new decision making techniques
• Implement decision making techniques

Invited Speakers and Program:

• Scott Ferson, from Applied Bioinformatics
• Juan Carlos Figueroa, from the National University of Bogota, Colombia

The previous editions of CoProD featured invited talks by highly recognized experts, such as:

• Purushotham Bangalore, CIS department, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Alessandro Dal Palu, University of Parma, Italy
• Rina Dechter, Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine
• Patty Hough, Sandia National Lab, Livermore CA
• Francois Modave, Texas Tech Health Center, El Paso
• Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
• 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
• Young Jun Son, The University of Arizona, Tucson
• Xiaobai Sun, Duke University
• Leticia Velazquez, The University of Texas at El Paso

Participation / Submission:

Participation is encouraged from people doing research in the area of decision making as well as from domain scientists. Submissions of ideas are also encouraged.

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. 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 September 20, 2013. Authors of accepted abstracts are expected to participate and present their work at the workshop.

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 including extended abstracts of CoProD13 and CoProD14.

The articles from previous CoProD are currently under review for inclusion in a Springer book series.

Important dates:

Location

University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
El Paso, Texas
More information available on the website of UTEP

Organizers and Contact Information