Typo corrected, my apologies

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

16th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProD'2023

https://www.cs.utep.edu/interval-comp/coprod23.html

May 30, 2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

CoProD'2023 is the sixteenth edition of CoProD http://coprod.constraintsolving.com/. It will be held on May 30, 2023, right before the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, May 31 - June 2, 2023, https://nafips2023.com/

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 April 15, 2023 (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:

April 10, 2023: paper submission

April 20, 2023: notification of acceptance

May 1, 2023: camera-ready copy of abstracts due

May 30, 2022: 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

• 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

• Sigfried 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, Università 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