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              CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

                CP-AI-OR 2009

     Sixth International Conference on Integration of Artificial
    Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint
     Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

               May 27-31,  2009
                Pittsburgh, PA

                www.cpaior.org

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The  CP-AI-OR  program  committee invites  proposals for the  Workshop
Program, to be held in conjunction with the conference.

Workshops provide a forum for researchers  from constraint programming
(CP),  artificial intelligence (AI), and operations research (OR),  to
exchange   ideas  in   an  informal  setting.   Workshops  provide  an
opportunity  to disseminate  work in progress,  or to promote  new and
emerging  areas within the field of combinatorial optimization and its
applications.  The Workshop Program will take place on  May 28th, as a
pre-conference  event,  alongside the  two-day  Constraint Programming
Tutorial.

Potential workshops topics include, but are not limited to:

   1. Relaxation methods, e.g. constraint propagation, cutting planes,
   global constraints, graph algorithms,  dynamic programming,  convex
   and Lagrangian relaxations, heuristic functions based on constraint
   relaxation.
   2. Search methods, e.g. branch and bound, intelligent backtracking,
   incomplete search,  randomized search,  column generation and other
   decomposition methods, local search, meta-heuristics.
   3. Integration methods,  e.g. static/dynamic problem decomposition,
   solver  communication, transformations between  models and solvers,
   collaboration between concurrent methods, models, and solvers.
   4. Modeling methods, e.g., comparison of models, symmetry breaking,
   uncertainty, dominance relationships.
   5. Particular application areas of CP/AI/OR techniques.
   6. Implementation of CP/AI/OR techniques and Optimization Systems.

Workshop  organizers  will be  responsible  for providing  a call  for
papers  and  a  website,   for  additional  publicity,   for reviewing
submissions, and for formulating the  technical program.  The CP-AI-OR
conference  will provide  local support.  Workshop  participants  must
register  for  CP-AI-OR,  but  there  will  be  no additional fee  for
attending a workshop.  Workshop  proposals should  be sent by email to
Willem-Jan van Hoeve (vanho...@andrew.cmu.edu).


Workshop proposal submissions should include the following
information:

   - Title and brief description of the workshop
   - Motivation why the workshop is of interest to CP-AI-OR
   - Description of the workshop format
   - The names of the proposed organizing committee
   - Contact information of the principal proposed organizer(s)


Important Dates

   December 21, 2008 - Workshop proposals due
   January 11, 2009 - Notification of acceptance
   February 15 - Workshop call for papers and website ready


Conference Organizers and Program Chairs

   John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
   Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carnegie Mellon University



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