CP2000: Second Call for Papers

[Martin Henz]

                   Sixth International Conference on
           Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

                   September 18-22, 2000, Singapore

                   http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cp2000

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

Constraints have emerged as the basis of a representational and
computational paradigm that draws from many disciplines and can be
brought to bear on many problem domains. The conference is concerned
with all aspects of computing with constraints including: algorithms,
applications, environments, languages, models, systems. Contributions
are welcome from any discipline concerned with constraints, including:
artificial intelligence, combinatorial algorithms, computational
logic, concurrent computation, databases, discrete mathematics,
operations research, programming languages, symbolic computation. We
also solicit papers from any domain employing constraints, including:
computational linguistics, configuration, decision support, design,
diagnosis, graphics, hardware verification, molecular biology,
planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, resource
allocation, robotics, scheduling, software engineering, temporal
reasoning, vision, visualization, user interfaces. Papers that bridge
disciplines or combine theory and practice are especially welcome.

Important dates

   Submissions of workshop/tutorial proposals: February 15, 2000
   Submissions of abstracts:                   March 11, 2000
   Submissions of papers:                      March 15, 2000
   Notification of acceptance:                 May 15, 2000
   Camera-ready papers due:                    June 30, 2000

Conference site

Located in Southeast Asia, the Republic of Singapore is a safe and
clean city-state. Known as the Lion City, Singapore is a modern
metropolis with one of the world's busiest ports and a world-class
airport. At the same time, the small tropical island has retained many
elements of its colonial past. The multiethnic nature of the
population provides a rich and varied cultural, religious, and
linguistic heritage.  The conference will be take place at a hotel in
the city center to be announced soon.

Submissions

Papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere.
Research papers can be up to 15 proceedings pages, and poster papers
can be up to 5 pages.  Submission should be done by sending two emails
to cp2000 at ics.uci.edu

The first email (to be received by March 11) should have the subject
"CP2000 Abstract: " followed by the paper title.  The body of this
first email should contain the title, authors and a short abstract of
the paper, all in plain text.  The second email (by March 15) should
have subject "CP2000 Paper: " followed by the paper title.  The body
of this second email should contain a postscript file. All authors
must be prepared to send a hardcopy by fast airmail upon request.
Authors who are unable to submit electronically can mail five paper
copies to the program chair, to arrive on or before the submission
deadline.

Publication

The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A special issue of the Constraints
journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers) is planned, based on selected
papers.

Workshops and Tutorials

Workshops and tutorials are planned for Monday, September 18, and
Friday, September 22, 2000.  Workshop and tutorial proposals should
be submitted to the workshop chair Toby Walsh via email at
tw at cs.york.ac.uk by February 15, 2000.

Conference Chair

   Roland Yap
   School of Computing
   National University of Singapore
   S16, Level 5, 3 Science Drive 2
   Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore
   Phone: +65 874-2972
   Fax: +65 779-4580
   ryap at comp.nus.edu.sg

Program Chair

   Rina Dechter
   Information and Computer Science
   University of California
   Irvine CA 92697-3425, USA
   Phone: +1 (949) 824-6556
   Fax: +1 (949) 824-4056
   dechter at ics.uci.edu
   cp2000 at ics.uci.edu

Workshop Chair

   Toby Walsh
   Department of Computer Science
   The University of York
   Heslington
   YORK, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
   Phone: +44 1904 432722
   Fax: +44 1904 432767
   tw at cs.york.ac.uk

Program Committee

   Krzysztof Apt (CWI),
   Roberto Bayardo (IBM, Almaden),
   Peter van Beek (University of Alberta),
   Alexander Bockmayr (LORIA),
   Alex Brodsky (George Mason University),
   Philippe Codognet (University of Paris, 6),
   Boi Faltings (LIA-EPFL),
   Ian Gent (University of Strathclyde),
   John Hooker (CMU),
   Joxan Jaffar (National University of Singapore),
   Peter Jeavons (Oxford University),
   Henry Kautz (AT&T Labs),
   Manolis Koubarakis (Technical University of Crete),
   Michael Maher (Griffith University),
   Jean-Francois Puget (ILOG),
   Barbara Smith (University of Leeds),
   Francesca Rossi (University of Padova),
   Helmut Simonis (Cosytec),
   Christian Schulte (Univ. des Saarlandes),
   Makoto Yokoo (NTT)

Organizing Committee

   Alan Borning (Univ. of Washington),
   Alex Brodsky (George Mason University),
   Jacques Cohen (Brandeis Univ.),
   Alain Colmerauer (Univ. of Marseille),
   Eugene Freuder, chair (Univ. of New Hampshire),
   Herve. Gallaire (Xerox),
   Joxan Jaffar (National University of Singapore),
   Jean-Pierre Jouannaud (Univ. of Paris Sud),
   Jean-Louis Lassez (New Mexico Tech),
   Michael Maher (Griffith University),
   Ugo Montanari (Univ. of Pisa),
   Anil Nerode (Cornell Univ.),
   Jean-Francois Puget (ILOG),
   Francesca Rossi (University of Padova),
   Vijay Saraswat (AT&T Research),
   Gert Smolka (Univ. des Saarlandes),
   Ralph Wachter (Office of Naval Research)

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distributed by publicity chair Martin Henz (www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~henz)