CP99 Post-Conference Workshop on
MODELLING AND SOLVING SOFT CONSTRAINTS
October 16, 1999
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/cp99-soft/
Content:
Description of the workshop:
In the last 5-10 years, a lot of effort has been devoted to extending the
classical notion of constraint, whose truth value
is computed in a boolean (true/false) algebra, to be able to
model features like fuzziness, uncertainty, optimization,
probability, and partial satisfaction.
Soft constraints are meant to satisfy this need, by
associating to each tuple, or to each constraint, an element from a set,
to be interpreted as a cost, or a level of preference, or
a probability, or other.
This workshop will cover all topics related to soft constraints, with
particular enphasis on modelling tools and solving algorithms.
More in detail, the workshop will certainly deal with the following issues:
- development/analysis/complexity study
of algorithms to solve classes of soft constraints;
- constraint languages that can deal with soft constraints;
- methods, techniques, and environments to
model real-life problems as soft constraint problems;
- applications of soft constraints.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss about preliminary work or novel ideas
about soft constraints in a less formal way than a conference. Therefore
we encourage the presentation of work in progress or on
specialized aspects of soft constraints.
Theoretical papers, as well as papers that bridge the gap between
theory and practice, are also welcome.
The workshop is held in conjunction with the Fifth International
Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP99),
which will take place in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, on October 11-15, 1999.
More details about the conference can be found at the URL
http://www.ise.gmu.edu/cp99 .
Program of the workshop:
| 8:45-9:00 | Opening notes |
| 9:00-10:00 | Invited Talk: |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Three presentations: |
| Fuzzy constraint satisfaction |
| R. E. Young, NCSU, USA |
| Fuzzy Hierarchies |
| F. Boussemart, C. Lecoutre, S. Merchez, E. Gregoire,
Universite' d'Artois, France |
| Representing
and Coping with recurrent Change in Dynamic Constraint
Satisfaction Problems |
| R. J. Wallace, E. C. Freuder, Univ. of New Hampshire, USA |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | Two presentations |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:30 | Two presentations |
| Abstracting soft constraints |
| S. Bistarelli, Univ. of Pisa, Italy,
P. Codognet, Univ. of Paris VI, France,
Y. Georget, INRIA-Roquencourt, France,
F. Rossi, Univ. of Padova, Italy |
| Soft constraints for
music scheduling |
| F. Pachet, Sony CSL Paris, France |
| 16:30-17:00 | Closing notes |
Paper Submissions:
Authors willing to present their work are invited to submit
a paper by August 30, 1999. Authors will be notified of the
acceptance or rejection of their papers by September 10, 1999.
Papers must not exceed 10 pages . The title
page should include the name, address, telephone number, and
electronic mailing address for each author, as well as a list of
keywords. A contact author should also be provided. Electronic
submission in PostScript format, to the address
cp99-soft@math.unipd.it, is mandatory, unless
special cases occur (to be notified to and agreed aupon with
the organizers).
At least one of the authors for each accepted paper is expected to
attend the meeting and present the work. The papers will be
made available electronically at the workshop web page.
Organizers:
- Philippe Codognet
University of Paris 6 (LIP6), Paris, France.
E-mail: Philippe.Codognet@lip6.fr
- Francesca Rossi
University of Padova,
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata,
Via Belzoni 7, 35131 Padova, Italy.
E-mail: frossi@math.unipd.it
Francesca Rossi (
frossi@math.unipd.it)