[UAI] 2nd CFP: CPAIOR 2006: 3rd International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems With apologies for multiple copies:


                        C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S

                    The Third International Conference on
        Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming
                   for Combinatorial Optimization Problems


                             CP-AI-OR'06


                 May 31-June 2, 2006, Cork, Ireland

                  http://tidel.mie.utoronto.ca/cpaior
                        cglrja@mie.utoronto.ca


After a successful series of five international workshops (Ferrara,
Paderborn, Ashford, Le Croisic, and Montreal) and two international
conferences (Nice, Prague), the third international conference devoted to
integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and
Operations Research techniques will be held in Cork, Ireland, in 2006.

The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers from
AI and OR, and to give them the opportunity to show how the integration of
techniques from AI and OR can lead to interesting results on large scale and
complex problems. We explicitly welcome new ideas and methods for
integrating OR and AI techniques that have arisen from real-world
applications.

CP-AI-OR is intended primarily as a forum to focus on the integration and
hybridization of the approaches of CP, AI, and OR technologies. A secondary
aim is to provide an opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about
techniques in others. Therefore, papers that actively combine, integrate or
contrast approaches from more than one of the areas are solicited. High
quality papers from a single area are eligible provided that they are of
interest to other communities involved.

As in previous years, CP-AI-OR'06 will be preceded by a Master Class where
leading researchers give introductory and overview talks in a given
area. This year, the topic of the Master Class will be "Modelling and
Solving for Uncertainty and Change." The Master Class is intended for PhD
students, researchers, and practitioners.

The program committee invites submissions that include but are not limited
to the following topics:

- Integration of constraint relaxation methods, e.g. constraint propagation,
  cutting planes, reduced costs, global constraints, graph algorithms,
  dynamic programming, Lagrangean and convex relaxations, heuristic
  functions based on constraint relaxation.

- Integration of search and solving methods, e.g. branch and bound,
  intelligent backtracking, incomplete search, randomized search, column
  generation and other decomposition methods, local search,
  meta-heuristics.

- Forms of integration, e.g. static/dynamic problem decomposition, linking
  variables and constraints in different solvers, transformations between
  models and solvers, methods using information derived by other solving
  methods, collaboration between concurrent methods, models, and solvers.

- Problems, modeling, and applications.


IMPORTANT DATES FOR AUTHORS
(THE DEADLINES ARE STRICT DUE TO PUBLISHER CONSTRAINTS)

Deadline for paper submissions     January 9,     2006
Notification of acceptance         February 24,   2006
Camera-ready copy                  March 7,       2006

Master Class                       May 30,        2006
CP-AI-OR'06                        May 31-June 2, 2006

The length of a standard technical paper is 15 pages. The conference
proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Authors are
requested to prepare their papers according to the Springer instructions
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All papers are to be
submitted electronically in a PDF or PS format by following the instructions
at the URL http://cpaior05.mff.cuni.cz/.

Following the conference, authors of all accepted papers will be invited to
submit substantially extended versions of their papers to a special issue of
the Annals of Operations Research devoted to papers from CP-AI-OR'06. These
papers will undergo an additional, very thorough refereeing process and a
selection of the best papers will be published.


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Chris Beck, University of Toronto, Canada
Barbara Smith, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland


LOCAL CHAIR

Barry O'Sullivan, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland


MASTER CLASS CHAIRS

Ken Brown, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland
Armagan Tarim, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland


PUBLICITY CHAIR

Ian Miguel, University of St. Andrews, Scotland


SPONSORSHIP CHAIR

Michela Milano, Universita di Bologna, Italy


PROGRAM  COMMITTEE

Gautamkumar Appa, London School of Economics, UK
Philippe Baptiste, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic
Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden
Ondrej Cepek, Charles University, Czech Republic
Hani El Sakkout, CISCO, UK
Bernard Gendron, CRT and Univ. of Montreal, Canada
Carmen Gervet, Brown University USA/Imperial College UK
Carla Gomes, Cornell University, USA
Narendra Jussien, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Stefan Karisch, Carmen Systems, Canada
Francois Laburthe, Bouygues, France
Andrea Lodi, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Michela Milano, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
Gilles Pesant, CRT and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Jean-Francois Puget, ILOG, France
Jean-Charles Regin, ILOG, France
Michel Rueher, Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Meinolf Sellmann, Brown University, USA
Helmut Simonis, CrossCore Optimization Ltd, UK
Gilles Trombettoni, Univ. of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA
Mark Wallace, Monash University, Australia
Weixiong Zhang, Washington University, USA


