FYI, papers related to imprecise probabilities are always welcome at this series of workshops

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18th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision

Making CoProD'2026

https://www.reliable-computing.org/coprod26.html

March 13, 2026, El Paso, Texas, USA.

CoProD'2026 is the eighteenth edition of CoProD. It will be held on

March 13, 2026, right before the Joint NAFIPS International

Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing and Explainable AI and

10th World Conference on Soft Computing, El Paso, Texas, USA, March

14-16, 2026, https://sites.google.com/view/nafips26/

Constraint programming techniques are important components of

intelligent systems. They constitute a declarative and efficient

methodology to represent and solve many practical problems. They

have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as

scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks

security, chemistry, and biology. Despite the proved usefulness of

these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life

applications. One reason is the perceived lack of effective

communication between constraint programming experts and domain

practitioners about constraints, in general, and their use in

decision making, in particular.

Objectives of CoProD:

* To present advances in constraint solving, optimization, and

related topics;

* To develop a network of researchers interested in constraint

techniques, in particular researchers and practitioners that use

numeric and symbolic approaches (or a combination of them) to

solve constraint and optimization problems;

* To address the gap between the great capacity of these techniques

and their limited use.

CoProD aims at encouraging presentation and discussion of on-going

work. In particular, please note that there is room for

presentation of ideas, as opposed to results only. It also aims at

facilitating networking opportunities as well as

cross-fertilization between the approaches used in the different

attending communities. Therefore, besides active researchers in

decision making and constraint programming techniques, we expect

to have a wide attendance and participation of domain scientists

-- whose input is highly valued in this workshop.

Proceedings / Publication:

Submissions are expected in the form of extended abstracts of at

least 2 pages and ideally no more than 5 pages (a few more pages is

OK), formatted using the Springer edited book format, style file

svmult.cls and an example of using this file (not related to

CoProD) are attached to the workshop website.

Submissions have to be sent in pdf format AND LaTeX format to

mceberio [at] utep [dot] edu and vladik [at] utep [dot] edu. A

contact author should be specified in the submission email. The

deadline for submissions is December 24, 2025 (Let us know if you

need a few more days). Authors of accepted abstracts are expected

to participate and present their work at the workshop.

Participation / Submission:

Participation is encouraged from people doing research in the area

of decision making as well as from domain scientists. Submissions

of ideas are also encouraged.

Important dates:

December 24, 2025: paper submission

January 17, 2026: notification of acceptance

February 13, 2026: camera-ready copy of abstracts due

March 13, 2026: workshop

Organizers:

Martine Ceberio, the University of Texas at El Paso,

mceberio@utep.edu

Vladik Kreinovich, the University of Texas at El Paso,

vladik@utep.edu

The previous editions of CoProD featured invited talks by highly

recognized experts (listed in alphabetic order):

* Purushotham Bangalore, CIS department, University of Alabama at Birmingham,

USA

* Martin Berz, Michigan State University, USA

* Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, Italy

* Alessandro Dal Palu, University of Parma, Italy

* Rina Dechter, Information and Computer Sciences, University of California

Irvine, USA

* Scott Ferson, Applied Bioinformatics, New York, USA

* Juan Carlos Figueroa, Universidad Distrital de Bogota, Colombia

* Milan Hladik, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

* Patty Hough, Sandia National Lab, Livermore, California, USA

* Luc Jaulin, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Techniques Avancees

(ENSTA) Bretagne, France

* Weldon Lodwick, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado,

USA

* Kyoko Makino, Michigan State University, USA

* Francois Modave, Texas Tech Health Center, El Paso, Texas, USA

* Tiago Oliveira, National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan.

* Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

* James Raynolds, College of Nanoscale and Engineering, SUNY Albany, USA

* Siegfried Rump, Hamburg University of Technology and Waseda

University, Japan

* Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan

* Bart Selman, CS department, Cornell University, USA

* Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria, Italy

* Sergey Shary, Novosibirsk State University, Russia

* Young Jun Son, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

* Xiaobai Sun, Duke University, USA

* Alfredo Vaccaro, University of Sannio, Department of Engineering,

Benevento, Italy

* Leticia Velazquez, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA