CP-2002

Preliminary Conference Program

Note: Some minor changes took place on the schedule since the first time it was posted on the web



Sunday - September 8
Workshops / Symposium
Monday - September 9
9.00 - 9.15 Welcome
9.15 - 10.15 Invited Talk
Perceptron and SVM Revisited: Large Scale Applications to Bioinformatics
Jean-Louis Lassez
10.15 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 13.00 Technical Session: Symmetries
- Groupe and Constraints: Symmetry Breaking During Search
I.P. Gent, W. Harvey and T. Kelsey
- Partial Symmetry Breaking
Iain McDonald and Barbara Smith
- Symmetry Breaking Revisited
Jean-Francois Puget
- Breaking Row and Column Symmetries in Matrix Models
Pierre Flener, Alan M Frisch, Brahim Hnich, Zeynep Kiziltan, Ian Miguel, Justin Pearson and Toby Walsh
- Solving the Kirkman's Schoolgirl Problem in a few seconds
Nicolas Barnier and Pascal Brisset
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Tutorial
Finite-Domain Constraint Programming Systems
Mats Carlsson and Christian Schulte
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 17.00 Technical Session: Programming & Modeling
- A Dual Graph Translation of a Problem in `Life'
Barbara M. Smith
- Inferring Constraint Types in Constraint Programming
David Lesaint
- Model-based Programming: Controlling Embedded Systems by Reasoning about Hidden State
Brian C. Williams and Michael D. Ingham
15.45 - 17.00 Doctoral Tutorial
Ethical Constraints
Toby Walsh
Evening Social Event
Tuesday - September 10
9.00 - 10.00 Invited Talk
A Polyhedral Approach to Nonconvex Optimization
G. Nemhauser
10.00 - 11.15 Technical Session: Innovative Applications I
- Visopt ShopFloor: On the edge of planning and scheduling
Roman Bartak
- Constraint Programming Contribution to Benders Decomposition: A Case Study
T. Benoist, E. Gaudin and B. Rottembourg
- Modeling Camera Control with Constrained Hypertubes
Marc Christie, Eric Languénou and Laurent Granvilliers
11.15 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.00 Technical Session: Innovative Applications II
- Robust and Parallel Solving of a Network Design Problem
Claude Le Pape, Laurent Perron, Jean Charles Regin and Paul Shaw
- Connections Reservation with Rerouting for ATM Networks: A Hybrid Approach with Constraints
Muriel Lauvergne, Philippe David and Patrice Boizumault
- Communication and Computation in DCSP Algorithms
Cèsar Fernàndez, Ramón Béjar, Bhaskar Krishnamachari and Carla Gomes
11.30 - 13.00 Doctoral Program Session (I)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Invited Talk
Constraints and Probabilistic networks: a look at the interface
Rina Dechter
15.00 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 15.45 Computational Symposium Report
Michael Trick
15.45 - 17.00 Technical Papers: Soft Constraints
- Learning and Solving Soft Temporal Constraints: An Experimental Study
F. Rossi, A. Sperduti, K.B. Venable, L. Khatib, P. Morris and R. Morris
- Opportunistic Specialization in Russian Doll Search
Pedro Meseguer, Marti Sanchez and Gerard Verfaillie
- Range-Based Algorithm for Max-CSP
Thierry Petit, Jean-Charles Regin and Christian Bessiere
Evening: Doctoral Program Dinner
Wednesday - September 11
9.00 - 10.00 Invited Talk
Bounded Model Checking and the Diameter Problem
Edmund Clarke
10.00 - 11.15 Technical Session: SAT I
- Accelerating Random Walks
Wei Wei and Bart Selman
- A Hybrid Approach for SAT
Djamal Habet, Chu Min Li, Laure Devendeville and Michel Vasquez
- Recovering and exploiting structural knowledge from CNF
Richard Ostrowski, Eric Grégoire, Bertrand Mazure and Lakhdar Saïs
11.15 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.00 Technical Session: SAT II
- Towards a symmetric treatment of satisfaction and conflicts in Quantified Boolean Formula Evaluation
Lintao Zhang and Sharad Malik
- Determining the Number of Solutions to Binary CSP Instances
Ola Angelsmark, Peter Jonsson, Svante Linusson and Johan Thapper
- Scaling and Probabilistic Smoothing: Efficient Dynamic Local Search for SAT
Frank Hutter, Dave A.D. Tompkins and Holger H Hoos
11.30 - 13.00 Doctoral Program Session (II)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Tutorial
Constraint and Integer Programming
John Hooker
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 17.00 Technical Session: Complexity
- Resolution Complexity of Random Constraints
David G. Mitchell
- Constraint Satisfaction, Bounded Treewidth, and Finite-Variable Logics
Victor Dalmau, Phokion G. Kolaitis and Moshe Y. Vardi
- Restart Policies that Consider Dependence Among Runs: A Dynamic Programming Approach
Yongshao Ruan, Eric Horvitz and Henry Kautz
15.45 - 17.00 Conference Posters
Evening: Banquet
Thursday - September 12
9.00 - 10.00 Invited Talk
Randomization and linear programming in the design (and analysis) of heuristics for discrete optimization problems
D. Shmoys
10.00 - 11.15 Technical Session: Hybrid Approaches I
- Reduced cost-based ranking for generating promising subproblems
M. Milano and W.J. van Hoeve
- Integrating Constraint and Integer Programming for the Orthogonal Latin Squares Problem
G.Appa, I.Mourtos and D.Magos
- On Optimal Correction of Inconsistent Linear Constraints
Paula Amaral and Pedro Barahona
11.15 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 13.00 Technical Session: Hybrid Approaches II
- Consistency Checking for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Cardinal Directions
Spiros Skiadopoulos and Manolis Koubarakis
- Temporal Planning through Mixed Integer Programming
Yannis Dimopoulos and Alfonso Gerevini
- A Global filtering algorithm for handling systems of Quadratic Equations and Inequations
Yahia Lebbah, Michel Rueher and Claude Michel
11.30 - 13.00 Doctoral Program Session (III)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Tutorial
Global Constraints
Nicolas Beldiceanu and Jean-Charles Regin
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 17.00 Technical Session: Global Constraints
- A New Multi-Resource cumulatives Constraint with Negative Heights
Nicolas Beldiceanu and Mats Carlsson
- On the Sum Constraint: Relaxation and Applications
Tallys H. Yunes
- Global constraints for lexicographic orderings
Alan Frisch, Brahim Hnich, Zeynep Kiziltan, Ian Miguel and Toby Walsh
- PC Dinner
Friday - September 13
9.00 - 10.30 Tutorial
Interval Reasoning
Frederic Benhamou
10.30 - 10.45 Break
10.45 - 12.00 Technical Session: CSP
- Secure Distributed Constraint Satisfaction: Reaching Agreement without Revealing Private Information
Makoto Yokoo, Koutarou Suzuki, Katsutoshi Hirayama
- Open Constraint Satisfaction
Boi Faltings and Santiago Macho-Gonzalez
- Beyond NP: Arc-consistency for quantified constraints
Lucas Bordeaux and Eric Monfroy
12.00 - 13.00 Doctoral Tutorial
To Advise and To Be Advised
Manuela Veloso
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.15 Presentation of CP'03 and CP'AI'OR'03
Francesca Rossi and Gille Pesant
14.15 - 15.30 Technical Session: Learning
- ACE, The Adaptive Constraint Engine
Susan L. Epstein, Eugene C. Freuder, Richard Wallace, Anton Morozov and Bruce Samuels
- Indexical-based Solver Learning
Thi Bich Hanh Dao, Arnaud Lallouet, Andrei Legtchenko and Lionel Martin
- Learning the Empirical Hardness of Optimization Problems: The case of combinatorial auctions
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Eugene Nudelman and Yoav Shoham
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 17.00 Technical Session: Scheduling
- Amplification of Search Performance Through Randomization of Heuristics
Vincent A. Cicirello and Stephen F. Smith
- Computing the Envelope for Stepwise Constant Resource Allocations
Nicola Muscettola
- Local Probing Applied to Scheduling
Olli Kamarainen and Hani El Sakkout