If you are planning to attend the workshop, but have
not submitted a paper or position paper, please email
Ken Brown, so that you
can be included in pre-workshop discussions.
The handling of uncertainty is a significant issue in many real-world
problems traditionally tackled by constraint-based methods. Uncertainty
can arise through incomplete knowledge of the problem at hand, or through
incomplete knowledge of how the problem changes over time, or may be
inherent in the problem itself. Though explicit treatment of uncertainty
has long been a central topic in artificial intelligence, it has received
little attention from the constraints community. Constraints research that
has addressed uncertainty is dispersed among a number of sub-fields -
Soft Constraints, and Dynamic CSPs, for example. The goal of this workshop
will be to bring together the different aspects of uncertainty in
constraint problems, to consider how existing methods can be used to
handle uncertainty, and to consider avenues for future research.
Thus in addition to research results, we also welcome discussions of work
in progress, challenge problems, and surveys of existing techniques. The
workshop will be of interest to those modelling and solving real world
problems, to those interested in theoretical issues in constraints, and
also to members of the Uncertainty in AI community.
We invite submissions which address any of the following topics, or which
deal with any other aspect of constraints and uncertainty:
modelling uncertainty in static constraint problems
algorithms for handling uncertainty in static constraint problems
modelling uncertainty in dynamic constraint problems
algorithms for handling uncertainty in dynamic constraint problems
uncertainty and constraints in application domains - for example,
scheduling, vehicle routing, and resource allocation
the contributions of existing constraint-based techniques to
uncertainty handling
Submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee, and will be selected
based on their contribution to the topic of the workshop. For those who would
like to participate, but do not wish to submit a full paper, we request short
position statements of at most 2 pages, describing their research background
or presenting a view on constraints and uncertainty.
Submission guidelines
Final papers for the workshop notes will be limited to 10 pages in the
Spinger Verlag LNCS style (font size 10). Note that there is very little
time between notification of acceptance and the deadline for final versions,
so we recommend submissions should be in the proper format to save time.
Please email all submissions as
either postscript, MS Word 6.0 or pdf to Ken Brown
(kbrown@csd.abdn.ac.uk) by Sept
24th. Each submission should have a title page with the name, address, and
email address for each author. One of the authors should be identified as
the contact author. Short position papers should also be submitted by Sept
24th.
Attendance Details
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop.
All workshop attendees must pay the CP/ICLP workshop registration fee.
The workshop will be
timed in consultation with the organisers of the Soft Constraints workshop,
so that there is no overlap, and attendance at both will be possible.
Important Dates
Email submission: September 24th
Notification: October 17th
Final versions: October 24th
CP2001: November 26th
Workshop: December 1st
Workshop Organisers
Chris Beck, ILOG, France, cbeck@ilog.fr Ken Brown, University of Aberdeen, UK,
kbrown@csd.abdn.ac.uk (Primary Contact)
Program Committee
Amedeo Cesta , CNR, Italy
Andrew Davenport, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Carmen Gervet, IC-Parc, UK
Philippe Laborie, ILOG , France
Gerard Verfaillie, ONERA, France
Thierry Vidal, ENIT , France
