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be held in conjunction with CP-12,
18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming
Computational Sustainability is a newly emerging
interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from computer
science, information science, operations research, applied mathematics, and
statistics for balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs for
sustainable development. The main focus is on developing computational and mathematical
models and methods for decision making concerning the management and
allocation of resources in order to help solve some of the most challenging
problems related to sustainability. Such models are traditionally studied
in disciplines as diverse as ecology, natural resource management,
biodiversity, atmospheric science, biological and environmental
engineering, and resource economics. Creating and optimizing these models,
however, often presents a scalability challenge, which limits what scientists
can analyze using relatively simple techniques. Bringing in advanced
computational methods and strong integration of computer science
disciplines, as a tool to solve these large scale problems, holds
tremendous promise for the enrichment of all involved fields.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers in
order to facilitate the exchange of ideas, presentation of recent or
preliminary results, and discussion of promising directions for the use of
computational methods to tackle a variety of challenging sustainability
problems. While the main focus of this workshop will be on computational
methods related to constraint programming (CP), constraint optimization,
and their integration with other domains, we will also encourage submissions
in other computational areas and techniques relevant to sustainability
problems.
Inspired by the multidisciplinary track this year, we aim to attract and
encourage presentation of interdisciplinary research that links CP
technology with other core computer science domains such as machine
learning, data mining, game theory, simulation and others. Furthermore we
encourage presentations, papers and talks that link such domains with CP
research on large scale sustainability applications.
The workshop will be organized as a hybrid of a traditional workshop and
a birds-of-a-feather event, with a mix of short and long talks, invited
speakers, as well as discussion sessions. We solicit three kinds of
submissions for this workshop:
1.
Papers
reporting new results as well as preliminary or recently published work in
the field of computational sustainability. There is no specific formatting
requirement or page limit. Papers reporting results that have already been
published or presented at another venue should clearly indicate so.
2.
Abstracts
(up to 2 pages) reporting preliminary results, describing an open
computational sustainability problem, proposing ideas for bringing in new
computational methods into the field, or summarizing the focus areas of a group
working on computational sustainability.
3.
Proposals for
leading a discussion topic on a specific area, open problems, or any
other topic of interest to computational sustainability. Such proposals
should consist of a one page description of the proposed topic and how the
proposers envision the session. An example format would be a short
presentation by the discussion lead followed by an open discussion focused
on a few specific questions.
Please
note that there will not be any published proceedings for the workshop.
PDFs of the accepted papers, abstracts or slides will be posted on the
website at the discretion of the authors.
Papers, abstracts, and discussion proposals
should be submitted as a PDF file by using the EasyChair
submission page for the workshop:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crocsatcp2012
Please use US Letter size page with a 1 inch
margin on all four sides, and 10 pt or 11 pt font for the main body of the paper. Other than
this, there are no specific formatting or style
requirements. If using LaTeX, the following
header should produce the correct format:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\setlength\textheight{9in}
Important
Dates
Submission
Deadline: August 31, 2012 (extended)
(Friday), 11:59 Pacific Time
Notification: September 15, 2012 (Saturday)
Workshop:
October 8, 2010 (Monday)
Submission,
Registration, Attendance
Papers, abstracts, and
discussion proposals should be submitted as a PDF file by sending an email
to crocs-at-cp12@computational-sustainability.org.
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the
workshop.
The workshop will be open to everyone
to attend, regardless of whether they have an accepted submission. However,
CP-12 organization requires that all workshop attendees must pay either
just the workshop fee or the CP registration fee including the workshop
fee. For detailed registration information, please refer to the CP-12 web page.
Workshop
Organizers
Bistra
Dilkina (co-chair), Cornell University, USA
Theo Damoulas (co-chair), Cornell University, USA
Carla P. Gomes (co-chair), Cornell University, USA
Ashish Sabharwal (co-chair), IBM Research, USA
Youssef
Hamadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Willem-Jan
van Hoeve, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Andreas
Krause, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British
Columbia, Canada
Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia,
Canada
Michela Milano, University of Bologna, Italy
Barry O'Sullivan, 4C and University College Cork, Ireland
Meinolf
Sellmann, IBM Research, USA
Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA
Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Toby Walsh, NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Contact
Information
If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to crocs-at-cp12@computational-sustainability.org.
Sponsored by the Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS), Cornell University, USA.
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