CP 2012 - 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

CP 2012
Eighteenth International Conference on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
October 8-12, 2012
Québec City, Canada
Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 23:59 EDT, April 19, 2012
http://www.cp2012.org/
Scope
The CP conference is the annual international conference on constraint programming. It is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, and agreement technologies.
CP 2012 includes a technical program, where presentations of research papers as well as invited talks aim at describing the best results and techniques in the state-of-the-art of constraint programming.
One day of Workshops precedes the conference. Tutorials and the Doctoral Program will form part of the main conference. Papers are solicited from all disciplines concerned with constraints.
Application Track
Reports on successful applications of constraint technology are particularly encouraged and are subject to special Applications track acceptance criteria.
Multidisciplinary track
Beside the application track, this year, for the first time a track on "Multidisciplinary papers: cross-cutting methodology and challenging applications" welcomes papers that link CP technology with other techniques like (this is not an exhaustive list) machine learning, data mining, game theory, simulation, knowledge compilation, visualization, control theory and robotics. In addition challenging application fields with a high social impact are especially welcome: some examples (not an exhaustive list) are CP for life sciences, CP for sustainability, CP for energy efficiency, CP for the web, CP for social sciences, CP for finance, CP for verification.
Conference Proceedings
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full paper submissions are limited to 15 LNCS pages plus references, while Short paper submissions are limited to 8 pages plus references. Short papers will be reviewed to the same standards of quality as full papers, but will naturally contain less quantity of new material. Short papers will have the same status as long papers and be eligible for the best paper prize.
Further information is provided on the conference webpage.
Post-conference Journal Publication
Selected papers submitted to the main conference and application track which receive excellent reviews from the referees will be invited to submit a revised paper for fast track review in the Constraints journal. Selected papers submitted to the Multidisciplinary track, which receive excellent reviews from the referees, and which fit the scope of the Artificial Intelligence journal, will be invited to submit a revised paper for fast track review in the AI journal. Further information is provided on the conference webpage.