========================================================================= Call for Papers and Participation The Fourth International Workshop on Modelling and Reformulating Constraint Satisfaction Problems To be held at the 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2005) Sitges (Barcelona), Spain 01 October 2005 ======================================================================== Constraint Programming (CP) is a powerful technology to solve combinatorial problems which are ubiquitous in academia and industry. The last ten years or so have witnessed significant research devoted to modelling and solving problems with constraints. CP is now a mature field and has been successfully used for tackling a wide range of real-life complex applications. However, such a technology is currently accessible to only a small number of experts. For CP to be more widely used by non-experts, more research effort is needed in order to ease the use of the CP technology. We solicit original papers that contribute to widen the use of the CP technology. Workshop topics include (but are not limited to): Application papers describing interesting problems and interesting ways to model them; Contributions to understanding modelling that could guide the manual or automatic formulation of models; Identification of the criteria that should be used in evaluating models and the design of pragmatic techniques that facilitate the choice among alternative models; Design of higher level modelling languages; Automatic reformulation techniques. SUBMISSION ---------- The workshop is open to all members of the CP community. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop, and that all workshop participants must pay the CP/International Conferences on Logic Programming registration fee in addition to the workshop fee. Note that a payment of a single fee provides admission to all CP/ICLP workshops. To submit a paper to the workshop, please e-mail to brahim@4c.ucc.ie a PS or PDF file in LNCS conference style. Papers should not exceed 15 pages. All submissions must be received by July 7, 2005. The organising committee will acknowledge all submissions. If a submitted paper is not acknowledged in 2 working days, the authors are kindly asked to contact the chair. All submissions will be reviewed and those that present a significant contribution to the workshop topics will be accepted for publication in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be available electronically at the workshop page and in hard copy on the day of the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission deadline: 07 July 2005 Notification of acceptance: 27 July 2005 Camera Ready deadline: 24 August 2005 Workshop: 01 October 2005 CP Early Registration deadline: 01 August 2005 FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------- CP'05 Conference: http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005/#Workshop%20Program Modelling Workshop: http://4c.ucc.ie/~brahim/cp05ws/ PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- Chris Beck (jcb@mie.utoronto.ca) University of Toronto, Canada Nicholas Beldiceanu (nicolas.beldiceanu@emn.fr) Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Alan M. Frisch (frisch@cs.york.ac.uk) University of York, United Kingdom. François Laburthe (FLABURTHE@bouygues.com) Bouygues, France Jimmy Lee (jlee@cse.cuhk.edu.hk) The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Marco Cadoli (cadoli@dis.uniroma1.it) Universita` di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy. Brahim Hnich, Joint Chair (b.hnich@4c.ucc.ie) University College Cork, Ireland. Jean-François Puget (puget@ilog.fr) ILOG, France Steve Prestwich (s.prestwich@cs.ucc.ie) University College Cork, Ireland Patrick Prosser, Joint Chair (pat@dcs.gla.ac.uk) Glasgow University, Scotland Paul Shaw, (sahw@ilog.fr) ILOG, France Barbara Smith, Joint Chair (bms@4c.ucc.ie) University College Cork, Ireland. ==============================================================================