Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research will be
held in Vienna, Austria, some time in the period June 21st-July 9th, 2021.
Website of the conference: https://cpaior2021.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/
The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers
from Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and
Operations Research (OR) to present new techniques or applications and
to provide an opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about
techniques in the others. A main objective of this conference series is
also to give these researchers the opportunity to show how the
integration of techniques from different fields can lead to interesting
results on large and complex problems. Therefore, papers that actively
combine, integrate, or contrast approaches from more than one of the
areas are especially solicited. High quality papers from a single area
are also welcome, if they are of interest to other communities involved.
Application papers showcasing CP/AI/OR techniques on novel and
challenging applications or experience reports on such applications are
strongly encouraged.
The program committee invites submissions that include but are not
limited to the following topics:
Inference and relaxation methods: constraint propagation, cutting
planes, global constraints, graph algorithms, dynamic programming,
Lagrangian and convex relaxations, heuristic functions based on
constraint relaxation.Search methods: branch and bound, intelligent
backtracking, incomplete search, randomized search, portfolios, column
generation, Benders decompositions or any other decomposition methods,
local search, meta-heuristics.AI and Machine Learning techniques applied
to solve optimization and Operations Research problems.Integration
methods: solver communication, model transformations and solver
selection, parallel and distributed solving, combining machine learning
with combinatorial optimization.Modeling methods: comparison of models,
symmetry breaking, uncertainty, dominance relationships.Innovative
applications of CP/AI/OR techniques.Implementation of CP/AI/OR
techniques and optimization systems.
Submissions are of two types: regular papers (submitted for publication
and presentation) and extended abstracts (submitted for presentation only).
This year's conference will, as last year, give a distinguished paper
award and a student paper award.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR REGULAR PAPERS
Regular papers should present original unpublished work and can be of
two types:
* long papers (at most 15 pages plus references)
* short papers (at most 8 pages plus references)
Both long and short papers will undergo rigorous review and are subject
to the same criteria of quality. Both types are also eligible for
distinguished paper or student paper award. Short papers are
particularly encouraged for interesting and novel work in progress, for
which the practical or theoretical relevance is not yet fully identified.
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. Authors should consult Springer's
authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for
LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer
encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition,
the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the
authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form.
The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the
corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent
to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be
made.
Submission schedule for regular papers (both long and short):
Abstracts: December 10th, 2020 (anywhere on Earth: AoE)
Full papers: December 17th, 2020 (AoE)
Rebuttal Phase: February 13-17, 2021
Notification: February 27th, 2021
Camera-ready version: March 27th, 2021 (AoE)
INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
Extended abstracts should be 1 or 2 pages in length and may present
preliminary work or work already published in other outlets. The
extended abstracts are submitted for presentation only (if accepted),
and will not be formally published in the LNCS conference volume. A
collection of the accepted extended abstracts will be published on the
conference website. A submission representing work submitted or
published in another outlet should state that outlet. Extended abstracts
will be reviewed to ensure appropriateness for the conference.
Submission schedule for extended abstracts:
Abstract: March 3, 2021 (AoE)
Notification: April 4th, 2020
Submission Process
All papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF format by following
the instructions at the URL
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpaior2021
QUESTIONS
For any queries on the submission process, please contact the Program
Chair Peter Stuckey: cpaior2021@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
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