[gecode-users] BPPC'08: Call for Papers

[Mats Carlsson]

			   Call for Papers

			       BPPC'08

       First Workshop on Bin Packing and Placement Constraints

		      associated to CPAIOR 2008

		     May 22, 2008, Paris, France

	    http://contraintes.inria.fr/CPAIOR08/BPPC.html
		 http://contraintes.inria.fr/CPAIOR08

____ Scope ____

  Bin Packing and Placement problems are an old but still challenging
  topic that has been tackled with different approaches.

  On the one hand, the aim of this workshop is to share recent progress
  made on pure problems by using any technique (or the mix) like Mixed
  Integer Linear Programming, Local Search, or Constraint Programming.

  On the other hand, the aim is to present challenging problems formulated
  and/or solved by these methods, or challenging extensions that have a
  practical interest and for which pure methods do not directly work.

  Submitted papers can be

       * Extended Abstracts of new results or
       * Abstract of ongoing works
       * Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop)
       * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results

  on any topic concerning bin packing and placement constraints.

  For registration, travel, accomodation and venue, see the CPAIOR 2008
  web site.

____ Important Dates ____


  Submission Deadline:      March 15, 2008
  Notification to Authors:  April 15, 2008
  Camera-ready due:         April 30, 2008
  Workshop:                 May 22, 2008.


____ Submission ____

  Submission site:
  
  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bppc08

  Submission style is the standard llncs style. Page limit is 6 pages.

  Workshop participation of at least one author is mandatory.
  Participation to CPAIOR is strongly encouraged.


____ Program Committee ____

  Nicolas Beldiceanu (EMN, France)
  Mats Carlsson (SICS, Sweden)
  François Clautiaux (Univ. Lille, France)
  François Fages (INRIA, France)
  Richard Korf (UCLA, USA)
  Andrea Lodi (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
  Silvano Martello (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
  Michael Moffitt (IBM Austin, USA)


________________________________________________________________________

  This workshop is sponsored by the European project NET-WMS.

  http://net-wms.ercim.org/