Special issue of Constraints
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Constraint-based approaches to preference modelling and reasoning


Guest editors:
Pedro Meseguer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy
Thomas Schiex, INRA Toulouse, France

Main topics:
To model  real problems,  constraint-based reasoning approaches  use a collection  of  local  constraints  to  capture the  properties  of  a solution.   However, most  (if  not  all) problems  in  life mix  hard requirements and preferences. Instead  of modeling preferences as hard requirements, which often  lead to over-constrained problems, specific approaches to deal with preferences are required.

This special issue of  the Constraints journal aims at collecting high  quality and original papers  dealing with preferences in constraint-based  reasoning, including  more generally any  kind of graphical models  generalizing constraint networks. The  issue is open to all aspects of preferences handling in constraint-based approaches, including:
The Constraints journal is a well-known journal published by Springer, with  ISI impact  factor 0.969  in 2007,  whose interests  include all aspects of constraint programming.

Important dates:
Submission format:
Papers should be formatted in  Springer LNCS  style and typically  not exceed 20 pages in that format. Submissions  are to be made by sending a pdf file to the guest editors. All  submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.