Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems (COPLAS)

*** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE! ***

Workshop presentation

The areas of AI planning and scheduling have seen important advances thanks to the application of constraint satisfaction models and techniques. Especially solutions to many real-world problems need to integrate plan synthesis capabilities with resource allocation, which can be efficiently managed by using constraint satisfaction techniques. 

The workshop will aim at providing a forum for researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence to discuss novel issues on planning, scheduling, constraint programming/constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and many other common areas that exist among them. On the whole, the workshop will mainly focus on managing complex problems where planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction must be combined and/or interrelated, which entails an enormous potential for practical applications and future research.



COPLAS is ranked as CORE B in ERA Conference Ranking and it is covered in selected Elsevier database products.

Workshop topics

We invite submissions on any topic relevant to the workshop, particularly those that combine techniques from both perpectives, planning & scheduling, and constraint programming. This includes but is not limited to:



• constraint modelling for planning & scheduling
• 
reformulations of constraint models for P&S
• global constraints motivated by P&S
• temporal CSPs
• integration of temporal and resource reasoning via CSPs
• search techniques and heuristics
• distributed/parallel solving techniques
• constraint management in P&S systems
• real-life applications

Workshop format

COPLAS is planned to be a full-day workshop. The workshop will be organized in technical sessions, each session will be concluded by a commentary of the session chair. The goal of the commentary is not only to summarize the content of talks but to highlight the important novel points and to raise questions to foster further discussion. We also plan to have individual commentary of each paper done by other authors in the session. Rather than being a mini-conference, the workshop will focus on opening new research areas and topics, discussing possible solutions, exchanging ideas and approaches, and in general inspiring forthcoming research.

Submissions

Papers must be prepared according to the AAAI style and instructions (see http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) and must be no more than ten (10) pages long, including figures and bibliography. Papers must be in PDF format and should be submitted via EasyChair conference system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coplas12). Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop notes. A journal special issue is under consideration for the best papers of COPLAS'12.

Important dates

• Paper submission deadline: April 6th, 2012  ** NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE **
• Notication of acceptance: April 30th, 2012
• Camera-ready version deadline: May 11th, 2012
• Workshop dates: June 24-25, 2012

Workshop organizers

• Miguel A. Salido, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain (msalido@dsic.upv.es)
• Roman Barták, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (
bartak@ktiml.mff.cuni.cz)

Tentative Program committee

• Federico Barber, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain 

• Roman Barták, Charles University, The Czech Republic 

• Amedeo Cesta, ISTC-CNR, Italy


• Minh Binh Do, NASA Ames Research Center, USA 


• Enrico Giunchiglia, Universita di Genova, Italy   
• Peter Jarvis, NASA Ames Research Center, USA


• Eva Onaindía, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain


• Nicola Policella, European Space Agency, Germany
• Hana Rudová, Masaryk University, The Czech Republic 


• Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy  


• Migual A. Salido, Universidad Politecnica Valencia, Spain
• Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA  
• Gérard Verfaillie, ONERA, Centre de Toulouse, France 


• Vincent Vidal, CRIL-IUT, France


• Petr Vilim, ILOG, France 


• Toby Walsh, UNSW, Sydney and NICTA, Australia


• Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut/SRI International, USA

More details can be found at workshop web pages
http://users.dsic.upv.es/~msalido/workshop-icaps12/index.html