[DMANET] Workshop on Soft Constraints, Discrete Optimization, and Machine Learning @ FLoC CP 2026

======================================================================                          CP2026 Workshop on      Soft Constraints, Discrete Optimization, and Machine Learning                               (Soft 2026)                           July 24th, 2026                        ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal                     Held in conjunction with the                  Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'26)                  and 32th International Conference on       Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2026)                   https://hub.imt-atlantique.fr/soft2026               ********************************************               Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th               ******************************************** ======================================================================                          Call for Papers ====================================================================== This  workshop  aims  to  bring  together  researchers  on constraint reasoning,  optimization, and  learning  to  present recent advances, share  ongoing   work,  and  discuss  future   directions  for hybrid approaches that  combine discrete  optimization with  machine learning and data mining. Topics of Interest (but are not restricted to): - Max-SAT - Max-SMT - Markov Random Field - Pseudo-Boolean Optimization - Soft global constraints - Weighted CSP - Integer Programming - Combining discrete optimization with machine learning for better   solver design. - Data-driven strategies to guide search heuristics, branching, or   propagation. - Using machine learning and data mining techniques to guide search. - Integrating deep neural networks to improve solvers. Submissions ----------- The  aim of  this workshop  is to  provide a  forum where researchers currently working in  this area can exchange their  ideas, discuss new developments  and explore  possible future  directions. Therefore,  we welcome and encourage three types of submission: 1)  Work in  progress and  Original work.  Submissions of  an extended abstract  or  a full  paper,  up  to 15  pages  in  the LIPIcs format (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author), about unpublished ideas  will be reviewed  by a double-blind process and if accepted  and  the  authors  agree  the final  version  will be made available on the workshop website. 2)  Already published  work. Authors  who are  interested in giving a presentation  to  the  workshop's   audience  may  submit their work non-anonymously   while   indicating   where  this   work   has been published. We  will only accept work  which has been published in the last calendar year (e.g., CPAIOR 2025, CP 2025, ECAI 2025, IJCAI 2025, AAAI 2026, and any journal or conference held after May 2025). 3) Papers  not selected for  the main CP conference.   Decisions about acceptance of these papers will be based on their reviews. Contributions should be submitted in the form of a PDF file, following LIPIcs guidelines, using the link https://submissions.floc26.org/soft/ The  type of  submission as  defined  above should  be clearly stated during the submission. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. This  workshop is  open  to all  members of  the  FLoC community. All workshop participants must pay the workshop fee. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission deadline           May 15th Notification of acceptance          May 28th Early CP registration deadline      June 1st Final version deadline              June 30th Workshop Date                       July 24th Organizers ---------- Simon de Givry INRAE MIAT, Toulouse, France. Email: simon.de-givry @ inrae.fr Web: https://miat.inrae.fr/degivry Samir Loudni DAPI, IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France. Email: samir.loudni @ imt-atlantique.fr Web: https://cv.hal.science/samir-loudni Program Committee ----------------- Quentin Cappart, UCLouvain, Belgium and Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Tias Gun, KU Leuven, Belgium George Katsirelos, INRAE Paris Saclay, France Elias B. Khalil, University of Toronto, Canada Javier Larrosa, UPC, Barcelona, Spain Jakob Nordström, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Lund University, Sweden Albert Oliveras, UPC, Barcelona, Spain Thomas Schiex, INRAE Toulouse, France Sylvie Thiebaux, LAAS, Toulouse, France ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************