crocs 2012 - Fourth International Workshop on Constraint Reasoning and Optimization for Computational Sustainability

Fourth International Workshop on
Constraint Reasoning and Optimization for Computational Sustainability
October 8, 2012, Quebec City, QC, Canada
http://www.computational-sustainability.org/crocs-...
To be held in conjunction with CP-12, the 18th International Conference
on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
(http://www.cp2012.org)
Computational Sustainability is a newly emerging interdisciplinary
field that aims to apply techniques from computer science, information
science, operations research, applied mathematics, and statistics for
balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs for sustainable
development. The main focus is on developing computational and
mathematical models and methods for decision making concerning the
management and allocation of resources in order to help solve some of
the most challenging problems related to sustainability. Such models
are traditionally studied in disciplines as diverse as ecology,
natural resource management, biodiversity, atmospheric science,
biological and environmental engineering, and resource economics.
Creating and optimizing these models, however, often presents a
scalability challenge, which limits what scientists can analyze using
relatively simple techniques. Bringing in advanced computational
methods and strong integration of computer science disciplines, as a
tool to solve these large scale problems, holds tremendous
promise for the enrichment of all involved fields.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers
in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas, presentation of recent
or preliminary results, and discussion of promising directions for the
use of computational methods to tackle a variety of challenging
sustainability problems. While the main focus of this workshop will be
on computational methods related to constraint programming (CP),
constraint optimization, and their integration with other domains, we
also encourage submissions in other computational areas and techniques
relevant to sustainability problems.
Inspired by the multidisciplinary track this year, we aim to attract and
encourage presentation of interdisciplinary research that links CP
technology with other core computer science domains such as machine learning,
data mining, game theory, simulation and others. Furthermore we encourage
presentations, papers and talks that link such domains with CP research
on large scale sustainability applications.
The workshop will be organized as a hybrid of a traditional workshop
and a birds-of-a-feather event, with a mix of short and long talks,
invited speakers, as well as discussion sessions. We solicit three
kinds of submissions for this workshop:
(A) Papers reporting new results as well as preliminary or recently
published work in the field of computational sustainability. There is
no specific formatting requirement or page limit. Papers reporting
results that have already been published or presented at another venue
should clearly indicate so.
(B) Abstracts (up to 2 pages) reporting preliminary results,
describing an open computational sustainability problem, proposing
ideas for bringing in new computational methods into the field, or
summarizing the focus areas of a group working on computational
sustainability.
(C) Proposals for leading a discussion topic on a specific area, open
problems, or any other topic of interest to computational
sustainability. Such proposals should consist of a one page
description of the proposed topic and how the proposers envision the
session. An example format would be a short presentation by the
discussion lead followed by an open discussion focused on a few
specific questions.
Please note that there will not be any published proceedings for the
workshop.
** IMPORTANT DATES **
Submission Deadline: August 5, 2012 (Sunday), 11:59 Pacific Time
Notification: August 15, 2012 (Wednesday)
Workshop: October 8, 2012 (Monday)
** SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION, ATTENDANCE **
Papers, abstracts, and discussion proposals should be submitted as a
PDF file by sending an email to
crocs-at-cp12-AT-computational-sustainability.org.
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the
workshop.
The workshop will be OPEN TO EVERYONE to attend, regardless of
whether they have an accepted submission. However, CP-12
organization requires that all workshop attendees must pay either the
CP registration fee including the workshop fee or only the
workshop fee. For detailed registration information, please refer to
the CP-12 web page: http://www.cp2012.org.
** WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS **
Bistra Dilkina (co-chair), Cornell University, USA
Theo Damoulas (co-chair), Cornell University, USA
Carla P. Gomes (co-chair), Cornell University, USA
Ashish Sabharwal (co-chair), IBM Research, USA
Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia, Canada
Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia, Canada
Michela Milano, University of Bologna, Italy
Barry O'Sullivan, 4C and University College Cork, Ireland
Meinolf Sellmann, IBM Research, USA
Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Toby Walsh, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
** CONTACT INFORMATION **
If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to
crocs-at-cp12-AT-computational-sustainability.org.
Sponsored by the Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS),
Cornell University, USA.