_____________ Call for Doctoral Programme Applications ______________
CP 2008
14th International Conference
on
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Sydney, Australia 14-18 September 2008
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/cp2008/
Co-located with ICAPS, KR, and NMR.
____ Call for Applications to the Doctoral Programme ____
CP 2008 invites Ph.D. students to apply for the Doctoral Programme,
a forum held during the CP conference which provides an opportunity
for a group of Ph.D. students to achieve visibility and discuss
their research interests and career objectives with each other and
established researchers in Constraint Programming and its related
fields. After successful Doctoral Programmes in previous years, it
is being run again this year for the eighth time.
The aims of the Doctoral Programme are the following:
- to provide a forum for Ph.D. students to present their current
research, and receive feedback from other students and senior
researchers;
- to promote contacts among Ph.D. students and senior researchers
working in the same area;
- to exchange research experience;
- to support Ph.D. students with information and advice on
academic, research and industrial careers;
- and to financially support attendance at CP.
The programme will consist of students' presentations and/or
posters, and tutorials given by senior researchers in the field.
In addition, each student will be matched to a mentor who is a
senior researcher with similar research interests and who can
advise the student on his/her research progress.
____ Participation and Financial Support Rules ____
- Applicants will be selected to participate in the Doctoral
Programme based on the quality of their submissions;
- selected applicants who have never attended CP Doctoral
Programmes will be given higher priority for financial support;
- participants who have already attended past CP Doctoral
Programmes will be given financial support if funding is
available. In this case, priority is given to students who
received less support from the DP in previous years.
Financial support consists of free conference registration and
accommodation. NOTE that only the students who applied and are
accepted for participation in the Doctoral Programme can receive
financial support.
____ Paper Availability ____
Student papers will be available during the conference and on the
Conference/Doctoral Programme websites.
____ Submissions ____
We encourage submissions from Ph.D. students at any level, and from
any topic area and methodology within Constraint Programming and
its related fields. On the basis of the submissions, the
Organizing Committee will select a group of students that will be
invited to present their work during the Doctoral Programme, either
as a presentation or a poster. We expect a commitment from all
participating students to attend the entire Doctoral Programme.
The paper should be a maximum of 6 pages in length and should
follow the usual LNCS style format at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
NOTE that the page limit is strict and longer papers will NOT be
reviewed. The paper should be sent either as a PostScript or as a
PDF file. It should describe original, unpublished work, completed
or in progress, that is part of the doctoral work of the
student(s). The authors should be formatted as:
Student(s): ...
Supervisor(s): ...
Students who wish to participate in the Doctoral Programme and have
*a full* paper describing their work accepted to the technical
programme of CP 2008, DO NOT have to submit a short version of
their paper to the Doctoral Programme. They need only send an
email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] explaining
that they wish to participate in the Doctoral Programme and have an
accepted paper in the main programme of CP 2008 describing their
work. The title, author list and abstract of the paper should also
be included. Any such student will automatically be accepted to
participate in the Doctoral Programme but the student will present
the work only in the technical programme sessions and not during
the Doctoral Programme. Financial support rules apply as
highlighted above. The papers of the students accepted for
participation to the Doctoral Programme will be made available on
the web.
In addition, the dissertation advisor of any student wishing to
participate in the Doctoral Programme should send a letter of
recommendation by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The letter should:
- confirm that the applicant is a Ph.D. student working in
Constraint Programming or its related fields;
- indicate whether the student has already benefitted and
received financial support from the past CP Doctoral
Programmes, and if yes how many times;
- indicate whether the student has a full paper accepted to CP
2008 describing her/his work;
- include the expected date for thesis submission;
- and the motivation/expected benefit for the student to attend
the Doctoral Programme.
This letter can be sent in as either a text or a PostScript or a
PDF file.
____ Important Dates ____
June 6, 2008: Deadline for applications
July 6, 2008: Acceptance notification
July 15, 2008: Final versions due
____ Organization ____
Doctoral Programme Chairs:
Kostas Stergiou
ICSD
University of the Aegean, Greece
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roland Yap
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programme Committee:
Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic
Sebastian Brand, NICTA and University of Melbourne, Australia
Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden
Hubie Chen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Brahim Hnich, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France
Christophe Lecoutre, CRIL-CRNS, Universite d'Artois, France
Ian Miguel, University of St Andrews, UK
Claude-Guy Quimper, University of Waterloo, Canada
Brent Venable, University of Padova, Italy
Neil Yorke Smith, SRI International, USA
Yuanlin Zhang, Texas Tech University, USA
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