(DBWORLD) Preliminary Announcement - CP98

Stefano Bistarelli (bista@DI.Unipi.IT)
Fri, 02 Jan 1998 19:31:09 +0100

---------------------------------------------------------
Apologies if you receive this more than once!
---------------------------------------------------------

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Preliminary Announcement - CP98

Fourth International Conference on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Pisa, Italy, October 26--30, 1998
Web site: www.di.unipi.it/~bista/cp98/

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Scope of the conference:
------------------------
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. The conference is concerned
with all aspects of computing with constraints including: algorithms,
applications, environments, languages, models, 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,
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, user interfaces. Papers that bridge
disciplines or combine theory and practice are especially welcome.

Conference Chair:
-----------------
Francesca Rossi, University of Pisa

Program Co-Chairs:
------------------
Michael Maher, Griffith University
Jean-Francois Puget, ILOG

Publication:
------------
The CP proceedings are published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors of selected papers
will be invited to submit revised versions of their papers to a special
issue of the Constraints journal (Kluwer) devoted to the conference.

Sponsorships:
-------------
CP98 is jointly sponsored by ILOG (France), SINTEF (Norway), Prologia
(France), and Compulog Net. Other sponsorships are pending. Public or
private entities which are interested in sponsoring this conference
should contact the conference chair at rossi@di.unipi.it.

Conference site:
----------------
The conference wil be held at the Congress Center of Pisa, Italy,
from October 26 to October 30, 1998. The last day of the conference
will be devoted to specialized workshops.

Additional information:
-----------------------
The call for papers, with details about the submission procedure and
the important dates, will be out very soon.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The dbworld list reaches many people, and should only be used for
messages of general interest to the database community.
To subscribe or unsubscribe yourself (or optionally (address)) from
dbworld, send a msg to majordomo@cs.wisc.edu with one of these lines:
subscribe dbworld (address)
unsubscribe dbworld (address)
To find out more options send a msg with the line:
help
--------------------------------------------------------------------------