<div>With apologies for multiple copies:</div><div><br></div><div> Call for Papers</div><div><br></div><div> CP 2012</div><div> Eighteenth International Conference on</div>
<div> Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming</div><div><br></div><div> October 8-12, 2012</div><div> Quebec City, Canada</div><div><br></div>
<div> Deadline for abstract submission: April 19, 2012</div><div> Deadline for Paper Submissions: April 23, 2012</div><div> </div><div> <a href="http://www.cp2012.org/">http://www.cp2012.org/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>--------</div><div>SCOPE </div><div>--------</div><div><br></div><div>The CP conference is the annual international conference on constraint</div><div>programming. It is concerned with all aspects of computing with</div>
<div>constraints, including theory, algorithms, environments, languages,</div><div>models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource</div><div>allocation, and agreement technologies.</div><div><br></div>
<div>CP 2012 includes a technical program, where presentations of research</div><div>papers as well as invited talks aim at describing the best</div><div>results and techniques in the state-of-the-art of constraint</div><div>
programming.</div><div>One day of Workshops precedes the conference. Tutorials and the</div><div>Doctoral Program will form part of the main conference.</div><div>Papers are solicited from all disciplines concerned with constraints.</div>
<div><br></div><div>------------------</div><div>APPLICATION TRACK</div><div>------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Reports on successful applications of constraint technology are</div><div>particularly encouraged and are subject to special Applications track</div>
<div>acceptance criteria. </div><div><br></div><div>------------------------</div><div>MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRACK </div><div>------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Beside the application track, this year, for the first time a track on </div>
<div>"Multidisciplinary papers: cross-cutting methodology and challenging </div><div>applications" welcomes papers that link CP technology with other techniques</div><div>like (this is not an exhaustive list) machine learning, data mining, game theory, </div>
<div>simulation, knowledge compilation, visualization, control theory and robotics. </div><div>In addition challenging application fields with a high social impact </div><div>are especially welcome: some examples (not an exhaustive list) are </div>
<div>CP for life sciences, CP for sustainability, CP for energy efficiency, </div><div>CP for the web, CP for social sciences, CP for finance, CP for verification.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------</div><div>
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS</div><div>------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>The conference proceedings will be published by</div><div>Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full</div><div>
paper submissions are limited to 15 LNCS pages, while Short paper</div><div>submissions are limited to 8 pages. Short papers will be reviewed to</div><div>the same standards of quality as full papers, but will naturally contain</div>
<div>less quantity of new material. Short papers will have the same status as</div><div>long papers and be eligible for the best paper prize.</div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------</div><div>POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL PUBLICATION</div>
<div>------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Selected papers submitted to the main conference and application track </div><div>which receive excellent reviews from the referees will be invited to submit </div>
<div>a revised paper for fast track review in the Constraints journal.</div><div>Selected papers submitted to the Multidisciplinary track, which receive excellent</div><div>reviews from the referees, and which fit the scope of the Artificial</div>
<div>Intelligence journal, will be invited to submit a revised paper for fast track</div><div>review in the AI journal.</div><div><br></div><div>Further information is provided on the conference webpage.</div><div><br></div>
<div>-----------------</div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>-----------------</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline for abstract submission: April 19, 2012</div><div>Deadline for Paper Submissions: April 23, 2012</div><div>Provisional Reviews to authors: May 25, 2012</div>
<div>Authors feedback due: May 27, 2012</div><div>Notification of Acceptance: June 3, 2012</div><div>Camera Ready Manuscript due: July 1, 2012</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--------------</div><div>ORGANIZATION</div>
<div>--------------</div><div><br></div><div>CONFERENCE CHAIRS</div><div>Gilles Pesant</div><div>Claude-Guy Quimper</div><div><br></div><div>PROGRAM CHAIR</div><div>Michela Milano </div><div><br></div><div>DOCTORAL PROGRAM CHAIRS</div>
<div>Michele Lombardi </div><div>Stanislav Zivny </div><div><br></div><div>WORKSHOP CHAIR</div><div>Meinolf Sellmann </div><div><br></div><div>PUBLICITY CHAIRS </div><div>Ian Miguel</div><div>Thierry Moisan</div><div><br>
</div><div>SPONSORSHIP CHAIR</div><div>Louis-Martin Rousseau</div><div><br></div><div>SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div>Christian Bessiere</div><div>David Cohen</div><div>Amnon Meisels</div><div>Pierre Flener</div><div>Alan Frisch</div>
<div>Enrico Giunchiglia</div><div>Carla Gomes</div><div>John Hooker</div><div>Laurent Michel </div><div>Jean-Charles Regin</div><div>Thomas Schiex</div><div>Peter Stuckey</div><div>Pascal Van Hentenryck</div><div>Mark Wallace</div>
<div>Toby Walsh</div><div><br></div><div>MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TRACK CHAIR</div><div>Barry O'Sullivan</div><div><br></div><div>APPLICATION TRACK CHAIR</div><div>Helmut Simonis</div><div><br></div>