The Configuration Workshop (ConfWS) is a two-day event that started at the AAAI’96 Fall Symposium and from 1999 onwards has been continued at IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, CP, and SPLC conferences, as well as stand-alone. The workshop promotes high-quality research in all technical areas related to configuration and to bring together researchers working in the various fields of applicable technologies and industry representatives. The main goal is to engage participants from academia and industry in a working group to foster synergies and act as incubator of solutions, scenarios possibilities, and future projects on Artificial Intelligence techniques in the configuration domain.
Organisers: Elise Vareilles, Chiara Grosso, José Miguel Horcas, Alexander Felfering.The ModRef workshop series aims to bring together researchers around the topic of modelling with constraints. The key goals of this workshop are to extend the understanding of constraint modelling and to automate aspects of modelling or model reformulation to extend the reach of constraint solvers on difficult problems and ease the task of modelling.
Organisers: Nysret Musliu, Hélène Verhaeghe.In 1996 the paper “In Pursuit of the Holy Grail” proposed that Constraint Programming was well-positioned to pursue the Holy Grail of computer science: the user simply states the problem and the computer solves it. The PTHG series of workshops aims to encourage and disseminate progress towards that goal, in particular regarding work on automating:
Of particular interest is the intersection of the Holy Grail goal with the increasing attention being paid to machine learning, explainable AI, and human-centric AI, and with current work on chatbots and LLMs.
Organiser: Eugene FreuderThe purpose of this Workshop is to bring together researchers from different fields that work on modeling and solving discrete optimization problems that can be factorized into independent pieces. Some paradigms that fall into this description are:
Of particular interest to the workshop is the presentation of modeling and solving techniques in one paradigm that can be transferred to the others producing cross-fertilization.
Organisers: Simon de Givry, Javier Larrosa