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- Subject: CFP: First Workshop on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
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- PPCP93 --- Call For Papers
- First Workshop on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
- April 28--30, 1993
- Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research
-
- The First Workshop on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
- (April 28--30, 1993 in Newport, RI) will be an inter-disciplinary meeting
- focusing on constraint programming as a general paradigm for computation. The
- workshop will be sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
-
- Conventional computing paradigms, such as functional, imperative, and
- object-oriented programming, deal primarily with full information notions of
- objects and data-types. Constraint programming (CP) is based on the ability
- to represent and manipulate partial information about objects, i.e.,
- constraints such as equalities and inequalities. CP augments conventional
- notions of state, state-change, and control with notions of monotonic
- accumulation of partial information about objects of interest, and with
- operations involving constraints such as consistency and entailment.
-
- Early studies, in the 60's and 70's, introduced and made use of CP in graphics
- and in artificial intelligence. In the 80's, considerable progress was
- achieved with the emergence of constraint logic programming and of concurrent
- constraint programming. CP has been applied with some success to operations
- research scheduling problems, hardware verification, user-interface design,
- decision-support systems, and simulation and diagnosis in model-based
- reasoning. Currently, CP is contributing exciting new directions in research
- areas such as: artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, concurrent
- and distributed computing, database systems, graphical interfaces, operations
- research and combinatorial optimization, programming language design and
- implementation, symbolic computing algorithms and systems.
-
- The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from all the
- above areas with an active interest in constraint programming. The meeting
- shall focus on understanding the common principles of this computing paradigm
- and investigating its use across different disciplines.
-
- The meeting will be small and informal, providing forums for prepared
- presentations, panels, and discussions. Participation will be by invitation of
- the program committee, and will be restricted primarily to authors of accepted
- position papers. The program committee solicits position papers describing
- preliminary or completed research and new directions or possible uses of CP.
-
- Authors are invited to submit (by hardcopy mail, e-mail or FAX) five copies of
- a short position paper, not exceeding 2000 words, by Friday January 22, 1993
- to one of the program co-chairs:
-
-
- Paris Kanellakis Jean-Louis Lassez Vijay Saraswat
- Brown University IBM T.J. Watson Xerox Palo Alto
- Dept. of Computer Science Research Center Research Center
- Box 1910 P.O. Box 704 3333 Coyote Hill Road
- Providence, Yorktown Heights, Palo Alto,
- RI 02912 NY 10598 CA 94304
- pck@cs.brown.edu jll@watson.ibm.com saraswat@parc.xerox.com
- tel: 401-863-7647 tel: 914-784-7841 tel: 415-812-4747
- fax: 401-863-7657 fax: 914-784-7455 fax: 415-812-4334
-
-
- Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their papers by
- February 26, 1993. Full versions of the accepted papers must be received by
- March 26, 1993. Proceedings will be available in technical report form at the
- workshop and, including feedback from the workshop, will be published in book
- format.
-
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- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
- Paris Kanellakis (Brown Univ.)
- Jean-Louis Lassez (IBM Watson)
- Clifford Lau (ONR)
- Vijay Saraswat (Xerox PARC)
- Ralph Wachter (ONR)
- Donald Wagner (ONR)
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-
- INVITED SPEAKERS (preliminary list):
- Alain Colmerauer (Univ. d'Aix Marseille)
- Herve Gallaire (Xerox Corporation)
-
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
- Alan Borning (Univ. of Washington, Seattle)
- Jacques Cohen (Brandeis Univ.)
- David Dill (Stanford Univ.)
- Johan de Kleer (Xerox PARC)
- Eugene Freuder (Univ. of New Hampshire)
- John Hooker (CMU)
- Joxan Jaffar (IBM Watson)
- Deepak Kapur (SUNY Albany)
- Paris Kanellakis (Brown Univ.)
- Dexter Kozen (Cornell Univ.)
- Jean-Louis Lassez (IBM Watson)
- Jean-Claude Latombe (Stanford Univ.)
- Nancy Lynch (MIT)
- David McAllester (MIT)
- Albert Meyer (MIT)
- Anil Nerode (Cornell Univ.)
- Fernando Pereira (AT&T Bell Labs)
- Raghu Ramakrishnan (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Vijay Saraswat (Xerox PARC)
- Pascal Van Hentenryck (Brown Univ.)
-
- LOCAL ORGANIZATION:
- Pascal Van Hentenryck
- Brown University
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Box 1910
- Providence,
- RI 02912
- pvh@cs.brown.edu
- tel: 401-863-7634
- fax: 401-863-7657
-
- IMPORTANT DATES:
- Deadline for submission: January 22, 1993
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: February 26, 1993
- Final paper due: March 26, 1993
- Workshop dates: April 28-30, 1993
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