Santa Fe

Track on

Constraint Solving and Programming

part of the

20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Santa Fe, New Mexico
March 13 -17, 2005

Index:

Overview ]

Scope ]

Submissions ]

Important Dates ]

Accepted Papers ]

Schedule ]

Organisation ]

Overview

Constraints have emerged as the basis of a representational and computational paradigm that draws from many disciplines and can be brought to bear on many problem domains.

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Scope

The track is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints including algorithms, applications, environments, languages, models, and systems. Contributions are welcome from any discipline concerned with constraints, including artificial intelligence, combinatorial algorithms, computational logic, concurrent computation, databases, discrete mathematics, operations research, programming languages, and symbolic computation. We also solicit papers from any domain employing constraints, including computational linguistics, configuration, decision support, design, diagnosis, graphics, hardware verification, molecular biology, planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, resource allocation, robotics, scheduling, software engineering, temporal reasoning, vision, visualization, and user interfaces. Papers that bridge disciplines or combine theory and practice or discuss novel reasoning methods are especially welcome. A special attention is focused around the use of constraint technologies in the networking, wireless and internet fields.

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Submissions

We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on constraint solving and programming, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions.

Preliminary guidelines

Submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing: papers being submitted should not list the authors, affiliations or addresses on the first page and authors are also encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimise references that may reveal the identity of the authors or institution. The body of each paper should not exceed 4,000 words. Papers failing to comply with length limitations risk immediate rejection.

At least three reviewers will be assigned to each submission to the track. Accepted papers are published by ACM in both printed form and CD-ROM; they are also available on the Web through the ACM Digital Library. Once accepted, papers must fit within five (5) two column pages (please check the author kit on the main SAC website: the format is usually the format used in the ACM templates), with the option (at additional expense) to add three (3) more pages.
A second set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as posters and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings.

Authors of accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must pay the registration fee and guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

Paper submissions should be sent (as an attached PDF file) to:

stefano.bistarelli@iit.cnr.it

The body of the email should include the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which correspondence should be sent.
The subject of the email should be "SAC2005 constraint track submission"

We strongly suggest to use for submission the available camera ready templates, and adhere to the 5 page limitation.

Registration is required for paper and poster inclusion in the Conference Proceedings, and for event attendance. (please see Registration Page)

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Important Dates

The proposed schedule of important dates for the track is as follows:

Paper Submission deadline August 31, 2004
Notification of acceptance October 18, 2004
Camera-ready version deadline November 2, 2004
Track Dates March 13-17, 2005

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Accepted papers

Limited Assignments: A New Cutoff Strategy for Incomplete Depth-First Search
Roman Bartak, Hana Rudova
On the Computational limits of Infinite Satisfaction
Stefan Dantchev, Frank D. Valencia
Breaking Value Symmetries in Matrix Models using Channeling Constraints
Y.C. Law, J.H.M. Lee
Hybrid Lagrangian Relaxation for Bandwidth-Constrained Routing: Knapsack Decomposition
Wided Ouaja, Barry Richards
A Branch-Price-and-Propagate Approach for Optimising IGP Weight Setting subject to Unique Shortest Paths
Farid Ajili, Robert Rodosek, Andrew Eremin
Solving Strategies using a Hybridization Model for Local Search and Constraint Propagation
Tony Lambert, Eric Monfroy, F. Saubion
Controlled Propagation in Continuous Numerical Constraint Networks
Frédéric Goualard, Laurent Granvilliers
Timid Acquisition of Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Sarah O'Connell, Barry O'Sullivan and Eugene C. Freuder

Poster papers

The Shortest Route Cut and Fill Problem in Linear Topological Structure
Weixing Li, Songshan Guo, Fan Wang, Andrew Lim

Track Schedule

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Organisation

Organising Committee

Stefano Bistarelli (Primary Contact)
Dipartimento di Scienze
Università degli studi "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Email: bista@sci.unich.it
Web: http://www.sci.unich.it/~bista/
and
Istituto di Informatica e Telematica
C.N.R. Pisa, Italy
Email: stefano.bistarelli@iit.cnr.it

Eric Monfroy
LINA
University of Nantes,France
Email: Eric.Monfroy@lina.univ-nantes.fr
Web: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/monfroy/
and
Departamento de Informática
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

Barry O'Sullivan
Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Department of Computer Science
University College Cork, Ireland
Email: b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie
Web: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~osullb/

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Programme Committee

Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic
Stefano Bistarelli, Università degli studi "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara, Italy and Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, C.N.R. Pisa, Italy
Carlos Castro, UTFSM Valparaiso, Chile
Yves Colombani, DASH, UK
Hani El Sakkout, Cisco Systems, United States
Filippo Focacci, CNRS, Lille, France
Markus Fromherz, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Laurent Granvilliers, LINA, Université de Nantes, France
Narendra Jussien, LINA, EMN, France
Arnaud Lallouet, LIFO, Orléans, France
Jimmy Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Michela Milano, DEIS - Università di Bologna, Italy
Eric Monfroy, LINA, Université de Nantes, France and Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile
Carlos Alberto Olarte, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Barry O'Sullivan, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland
María Cristina Riff, UTFSM, Chile
Frédéric Saubion, LERIA, Université d'Angers, France
Peter Stuckey, the University of Melbourne, Australia
József Váncza, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Roland Yap, National University of Singapore

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