Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals

CP'2001 tutorials are ideally targeted at the whole constraint community and should give a state of the art description of a field of research related to constraint programming or of a large area of application. Tutorials may address theoretical and/or practical aspect of constraint solving. Typical subjects, without any limitation are: numerical CSP, global constraints, n-ary constraints, soft constraints, mathematical programming, dynamic programming and constraints, cooperation between methods, local search, functional/concurrent/logic constraint programming, areas of application (eg. bioinformatics)...

CP'2001 workshops will provide an informal setting where workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. It is an opportunity to disseminate work in progress or to promote new and emerging areas within the field of constraints. The topics of the workshops can cover any area related to constraints and any related cross-disciplinary areas.

The format of the workshop will be determined by the organizers. Workshops can vary in length with an expected duration ranging from half a day up to one day. Having two or three co-organizers for a workshop is strongly advised. Workshop attendees must pay the CP/ICLP workshop registration fee.

Important Dates for Workshops

• June 15, 2001: Proposal submission deadline
• June 25, 2001: Acceptance notification
• October 15, 2001: Deadline for workshop working notes
• November 26-30, 2001: CP technical program
• December 1, 2001: CP'2001 workshops

Important Dates for Tutorials

• August 31, 2001: Proposal submission deadline
• September 14, 2001: Acceptance notification
• October 15, 2001: Deadline for tutorial notes
• November 26-30, 2001: CP technical program and tutorials

Requirements for Submission

• The title and a brief technical description of the tutorial/workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that will be its focus and a preliminary schedule (duration).
• A brief discussion of why and to whom the tutorial/workshop is of interest.
• For workshops, if available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees.
• A list of related tutorial/workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed tutorial/workshop.
• The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, web page and email addresses (if available) of the proposed organizing committee. This committee should consist of two or three people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed, preferably not coming from the same institution.
• The name of the primary contact for the organizing committee; this person must have an email address.
• A description of the qualifications of the individual committee members with respect to organizing a CP workshop/tutorial, including a list of workshops/tutorials previously arranged by any members of the proposed organizing committee, if any.

Each workshop organizing committee will be responsible for:

• producing a "Call for Papers" and a Web page for their workshop by June 30, 2001. Please provide a web page/URL which can     be linked into the CP'2001 home page. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the CP community. It should also mention that at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and that all workshop participants must pay the CP/ICLP workshop registration fee. Finally, it should also clearly describe the process by which the Organizing Committee will select the participants.
• providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program.
• Reviewing/accepting submitted papers.
• Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local organizers and the workshop chair.
• by October 15th, 2001, workshop organizing committees must provide any working notes to be duplicated for the workshops (up to a maximum of 200 pages), and a list of audio-visual requirements and any special room requirements.

CP'2001 organizing committee will be responsible for the following:

• providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
• providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop.
• in conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.
• duplicating working notes as described above and distributing them to the participants.

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