CALL FOR PAPERS
WORKSHOP ON CONSTRAINT PROCESSING
August 8th, 1994
A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the
11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'94)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 8-12th, 1994
An increasing number of researchers all over the world are now dealing
with different aspects of constraint processing regarded as a general
paradigm of computation. However, the constraint processing community
appears to be very heterogeneous: Researchers from logic programming,
knowledge representation, expert systems, theoretical computer science,
operations research and other related fields are investigating the use
of constraint processing methods, their theoretical foundations, as well
as their applications to real-life problems. Each of these communities
has its own subgroup dealing with constraint processing issues, some of
them with specialized meetings, workshops, mailing lists etc. But, up to
now there has not been much effort to bring together researchers working
on or interested in constraint processing from different viewpoints and
to work out the common principles, vocabulary, and techniques that are
used as well as similarities and differences between various viewpoints.
Continuing the efforts that started with the workshop on constraint
processing at CSAM'93 in St. Petersburg (Russia) on July 20th-21st, 1993
this workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on different
aspects of constraint processing in order to exchange, compare and
contrast basic viewpoints, different approaches and recent research
results. Thus, the workshop is planned as an interdisciplinary meeting
of researchers as well as practitioners with an active interest in the
area of constraint processing. It will provide an international forum to
discuss and exchange new ideas and approaches, and to present not only
full-blown research papers but also partial results, position papers and
reports on ongoing research. By that, it is hoped that a fruitful cross-
fertilization among the various disciplines will result.
Work on all different aspects of constraint processing is of specific
interest for the workshop, including
* constraint-satisfaction methods and consistency techniques,
* constraint logic programming,
* concurrent constraint languages,
* constraints and knowledge representation,
* object-oriented constraint processing,
* constraint programming,
* constraint maintenance,
* constraints identification, specification, management and
implementation techniques,
* over-specified constraint problems and constraint relaxation,
* creation and execution of constraint-satisfaction plans,
* constraint refinement,
* hierarchical constraint problems,
* parallel and distributed computing with constraints,
* finite (discrete) as well as continous domain handling,
* real-time constraints,
* relations to operations research or deductive databases,
* constraint processing in computer graphics,
* theoretical foundations,
* complexity results, and
* reports showing the practical relevance of constraint processing
and what basic techniques are needed in practice.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop is planned as a combination of presentations of submitted
papers and a round-table discussion that shall stimulate the exchange of
new ideas and approaches among the workshop participants.
PAPER SUBMISSION
People interested in giving a presentation at the workshop are invited
to submit an extended abstract (no more than eight pages, single-spaced,
one column, 12pt), preferably by e-mail (LaTeX/PostScript are welcome).
Authors not having e-mail access should send 4 copies. Persons wishing
to participate without giving a presentation should submit a brief (one
page) abstract describing their research and/or interest in constraint
processing. However, priority will be given to people submitting papers.
Submissions should arrive before April 14th, 1994 at the address given
below. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or
designated author). On the first page include the name, address, phone
and fax number, and e-mail address of the author designated for contact.
Notifications of acceptance will be mailed by May 16th, 1994. Authors of
accepted papers will be invited to submit full papers of up to 15 pages
by June 8th, 1994 to be included in the workshop notes distributed to
all participants. It is also planned to publish a collection of revised
versions of the best papers in book format including feedback from the
workshop. Please send your submissions and inquiries to:
Manfred Meyer
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse 57
P.O. Box 20 80
D-67608 Kaiserslautern
phone: +49 631 205 3468
fax: +49 631 205 3210
e-mail: ·····@dfki.uni-kl.de
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Philippe Codognet (INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay, France)
Hans Werner Guesgen (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Walter Hower (Uni Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany)
Manfred Meyer (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
ECAI REGISTRATION POLICY
Following the ECAI registration policy, all workshop participants will
have to register for the main ECAI'94 conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions due: April 14th, 1994
Notification: May 16th, 1994
Full papers due: June 8th, 1994
Workshop: August 8th, 1994