The future of CP

A panel at CP 2011

September 16th, 2011 - Perugia, Italy.

Download:
Francesca Rossi's presentation
Eugene Freuder's presentation
Jimmy Lee's presentation
Barry O'Sullivan presentation
Gilles Pesant's presentation
Meinolf Sellman's presentation
Toby Walsh's presentation

Confirmed panelists

- Eugene Freuder
- Jimmy Lee
- Barry O'Sullivan
- Gilles Pesant
- Meinolf Sellman
- Toby Walsh

Moderator

Francesca Rossi

Motivation

After more than 15 years from the first CP conference, and about 20 years since the first CP and PPCP workshops, the field needs to discuss its own future, so to consciously shape it in the best way, for the good of the advancement of science and its impact on the society.

Timing

The panel will be held on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 16:25, and will last 1 hour and 30 minutes. It will be the last event of the CP 2011 scientific program.

Panel structure

The panelists will first present, in 5 minutes each, what they believe are the most important research directions for CP, possibly with a vision for its future. After that, panelists will be asked to answer and discuss some questions, among which for example the following:

• Where do you see CP in 5 or 10 years from now? Which is your vision for the future of CP?
• Should CP open more to other fields or should rather concentrate on its inside?
• A good plan for the future should be based on the lessons learnt from the past. What do you think was the best research line in the history of CP?
• What are the great challenges for CP now and in the years to come?
• What do you think of the decreasing presence of CP in the AI conferences?
• In AI, internet has increased the field of multiagent systems and voting theory. The enphasis is moving from single-agent optimization to multiagent preference aggregation. Do you think this is where CP should go?

Participation:

All CP 2011 participants are encouraged to participate in the panel by any of the following means:

• Questions: come to the panel and ask your preferred questions, or send me (frossi@math.unipd) questions you would like me to ask the panelists
• Grand challenges: proposing grand challenges for CP (either by using the grand challenge proposal card that will be distributed to all CP 2011 participants, or by sending the challenge description to me); a summary of all proposals will then be presented and discussed during the panel

Rewards:

Although this panel is the last technical event of what will be a very intense week in Perugia, there will be rewards for those who will stay until the end: following the very successful initiative at IJCAI2011, after the panel there will be a final event including

• a lottery among all participants present at that time, including an ipad2 (generously offered by NICTA)
• a final social event with finger food and drinks