ANN: CONSTRAINTS journal announcement ...

[Jimmy H.M. Lee]

We apologize if you receive this announcement more than once.

Best regards,
Jimmy Lee
Secretary
Association for Constraint Programming
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Dear colleague,

We are pleased to announce that Constraints now publishes specially
identified Survey papers, Application Papers and Letters. We welcome
submissions for these types of articles along with our regular
contributions and special issues.

We also welcome three new Editors who will be handling these
manuscripts.

Surveys Editor, Thomas Schiex, INRA Toulouse, France
Survey papers provide a full-length, state-of-the-art review on a
well-defined topic. References to other media, such as stable web
references, executable code or sources, benchmarks, videos, and
animations, are welcome. Proposals for survey articles may cover
theoretical or application-oriented topics that have witnessed
significant developments and have not been recently surveyed.

Applications Editor, Helmut Simonis, Cork Constraint Computation
Centre, Ireland
Application papers describe real-life applications of Constraint
Programming in areas such as industry, education, health, and
government. Papers discussing real-life oriented benchmark
problems, especially comparing constraint formulations with other
solution techniques, will also be considered. Submissions will be
critically refereed considering novelty, impact and awareness of
related work.

Letters Editor, J. Christopher Beck, University of Toronto,
Canada
Letters are welcome on any topic relevant to the journal scope
which present novel, high-quality research that has not appeared
and is not under review elsewhere, including in a conference.
Letters provide a forum for considering contributions, such as
important technical results, experimental results providing a
relevant evaluation of a previously proposed algorithm (by the
author of the Letter or others), or improvements and corrections
of results already in the literature.

Full descriptions of these new article types, along with detailed
submission instructions can be found on the journal's home page:
www.springer.com/10601.

Authors should submit their manuscript through Editorial Manager
(tm) at http://CONS.edmgr.com, selecting "SURVEY PAPER" or
"APPLICATIONS PAPER" or "LETTER" as the article type.

Please help us to make these new submission types a success.

Sincerely,

Gilles Pesant
Editor-in-Chief
Constraints: An International Journal

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