[Pl-seminar] FLAIRS Constraint track CFP

[Stefano Bistarelli]

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

                       Special Track at

     The 17th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-04) on

               CONSTRAINT SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING

                      Held in co-operation
       The American Association for Artificial Intelligence


             http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~osullb/flairs2004/

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Aims and Scope
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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. This special track is concerned with all aspects of
computing
with constraints including algorithms, applications, environments,
languages,
models, and systems.

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, and user
interfaces.

Papers that bridge disciplines or combine theory and practice or discuss
novel
reasoning methods are especially welcome. Special attention is focused
around
the use of constraint technologies in the networking, wireless and internet
fields.

The FLAIRS general conference will have as invited speakers:

o Justine Cassell, MIT
o Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University
o Jim Hendler, University of Maryland
o Tom Mitchell, CMU


Submissions
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We invite authors to submit papers on research on constraint solving and
programming, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the
art and identifying future directions.

All submissions must be original work. Formatting and submission
instructions
are available from: http://www.cs.ccsu.edu/flairs2004/

Papers, of sufficiently high quality, will be selected to appear in a
special
issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT).


Important Dates
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Deadline paper submissions    October 24, 2003
Notification of acceptance    January 7, 2004
Camera-ready deadline         February 6, 2004


Organising Committee
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Barry O'Sullivan (Primary Contact)
Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Department of Computer Science
University College Cork, Ireland

Email: b.osullivan at cs.ucc.ie
Web: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~osullb/


Stefano Bistarelli
Istituto per l'Informatica e la Telematica
C.N.R.
Area della Ricerca, Via G. Moruzzi, 1
I-56124 Pisa, Italy

Email: Stefano.Bistarelli at iit.cnr.it
Web: http://www.di.unipi.it/~bista


Program Committee
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Krzysztof Apt, National University of Singapore
Christian Bessiere, LIRMM, France
Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland
Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm, Germany
Carmen Gervet, IC Parc, Imperial College, UK
Scott Goodwin, University of Windsor, Canada
Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA
Javier Larrosa, UPC, Spain
Jimmy H.M. Lee, City University of Hong Kong
Ian Miguel, University of York, UK
Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italty
Marius-Calin Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Mark Wallace, IC Parc, Imperial College, UK
Toby Walsh, University College Cork, Ireland