Dear Friends, This is FYI, papers using imprecise probabilities are always welcome at this series of workshops
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 (remote participation is possible)
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 NAFIPS 2026, 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 should take 2-5 page (a few more pages is OK), if possible, 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. Accepted submissions of at least 4 pages will be published by Springer, as part of the proceedings of the NAFIPS 2026 conference.
Please send the source file(s) and the resulting pdf file 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 Fenruary 15, 2026 (Let us know if you need a few more days). Authors of accepted submissions 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:
February 15, 2026: deadline for submission
February 22, 2026: notification of acceptance
March 1, 2026: deadline for final versions of accepted submissions
March 13, 2026: workshop
Organizers:
Martine Ceberio, the University of Texas at El Paso, mceberio@utep.edu<mailto:mceberio@utep.edu>
Vladik Kreinovich, the University of Texas at El Paso, vladik@utep.edu<mailto: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