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_____________________ Call for Application Papers ___________________

CP 2008

14th International Conference
on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Sydney, Australia 14-18 September 2008

http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/cp2008/

Co-located with:
Int'l Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
Int'l Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
Int'l Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR)


____ Call for Application Papers ____

The CP conference is the annual international conference on
constraint programming. It is concerned with all aspects of
computing with constraints.

CP 2008 wishes to promote the presentation of CP applications.
Reports on successful applications of constraint technology are
therefore particularly encouraged. They are subject to special
Applications track reviewing and acceptance criteria:

- Application papers will be reviewed by a special committee of
people with much experience in the use of CP in applications.

- The writing of the paper itself is made simple by framing it
around the answers to four main questions (outlined below).

Accepted application papers will appear in the same proceedings as
research papers, which will be published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers are limited to 15
LNCS pages. Further author information is provided on the
conference webpage.


____ Suggested outline ____

Title

Authors/Company

Section 1: The problem
- context, description, definition...
- size of the application (constraint part/others)?
- how important is the problem? (impact...)
in which terms? (monetary, safety, etc.)
- what is a solution to this problem? (decision, exemplification,
enumeration, counting, optimisation, approximation, etc.)

Section 2: Why CP?
- what was used before? (hand made, LP...)
why change? (didn't it work well? difficult to maintain? ...)
why/how did you come to CP?

Section 3: How CP?
- model, implementation
- pure CP or hybrid? (is CP used in conjunction with other
problem solving techniques such as LP/MIP, SAT, custom
heuristic?) which decomposition method?

Section 4: Added value of CP?
- cost of development? / time spent developing the application?
- how long has it been in production mode (if development
completed)?
- what is the feedback from user experience (if applicable)?
- was it difficult/necessary for the end-user to understand
constraint technology?
- what is the return on investment (if applicable)?
- do you plan any new CP based development?
- what are the lessons learned from the use of CP?


____ Dates ____

Submission: 1 April 2008
Notification: 1 June 2008
Final version: 15 June 2008
Conference: 14-18 Sept. 2008


____ Applications track committee ____

Andy Chun (Hong Kong) Barry O'Sullivan (Ireland)
Vitaly Lagoon (Australia) Helmut Simonis (Ireland)
Michela Milano (Italy) Mark Wallace (Australia)

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