From: Christian Schulte
Subject: (Snd CFP) TRICS: Techniques foR Implementing Constraint programming
Date: 
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TRICS: Techniques foR Implementing Constraint programming Systems

              Workshop in conjunction with CP 2000

                  September 22, 2000, Singapore

            http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cp2000/trics/
                  
                      SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Constraint programming systems  are software systems that support
the   modeling   and  solving   of   problems  using   constraint
programming.   Such   systems   include  constraint   programming
libraries   and  runtime   systems  for   constraint  programming
languages. The constraints handled  by these systems range over a
variety  of domains:  integers, booleans,  sets, trees,  etc. The
workshop will focus on implementation issues for such systems.

Semantic  issues  of  constraint  programming  systems  are  well
covered   by   publications.   Unfortunately,   there   are   few
publications   on    implementational   aspects   of   constraint
programming. This makes it  unnecessarily hard for researchers to
design   and    implement   innovative   constraint   programming
systems. This  workshop addresses  this problem by  inviting both
papers  that indicate  new techniques  and directions  and papers
that  clearly  present  established  but  unpublished  "folklore"
techniques.

Possible topics  for workshop contributions include,  but are not
limited to:

  + libraries, programming languages and modeling languages,
    rapid application development tools; solver coordination
    mechanisms; APIs/low-level interfaces; support for objects, 
    threads, concurrency 

  + compositionality; impact of using implementation language
    features such as objects, higher-order functions and threads;
    reuse across systems

  + memory management (trailing vs copying); constraint store
    management (addition, removal and simplification of 
    constraints); scheduling of propagation events; hybrid
    algorithm configuration and monitoring 

The  workshop is  held in  conjunction  with CP  2000, the  Sixth
International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming
        http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cp2000/


Important dates

  Submission of contribution            June 15, 2000 
  Notification of acceptance            July 15, 2000 
  Final versions for proceedings        September 1, 2000 
  CP Conference                         September 18 - 22, 2000 
  TRICS Workshop                        September 22, 2000 


Contributions

Contributions to the workshop can  include but are not limited to
paper     presentations,    poster     presentations,    computer
demonstrations and discussion themes.  Please email a write-up of
your contribution (no more  than 15 pages) in Postscript together
with  your preferred  form of  presentation to  Fran�ois Laburthe
<········@challenger.bouygues.fr>.

Organization

 Nicolas Beldiceanu     SICS
 Warwick Harvey         IC-Parc
 Martin Henz            National University of Singapore
 Fran�ois Laburthe      Bouygues
 Eric Monfroy           CWI
 Tobias M�ller          Universit�t des Saarlandes
 Laurent Perron         ILOG
 Christian Schulte      Universit�t des Saarlandes


-- 
Christian Schulte, http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~schulte/