CP App Competition

[Eugene Freuder]

The Association for Constraint Programming Executive Committee has endorsed the idea of an ACP CP App Competition. The basic idea would be a challenge to produce an app (Apple and/or Android; free) prominently labelled “CP AI Inside”. 

CP is, of course, both one of the most widely used AI technologies and one of the least well-known. Apps with “CP AI Inside” could help raise awareness of CP. 

The competition was inspired in part by this article about a Cornell app that has over a million downloads, and has been written up in the New York Times, Popular Science, etc.:

https://aihub.org/2021/10/19/what-bird-is-singing-merlin-bird-id-app-offers-instant-answers/

Entrants could be individuals or teams. The competition could be used to motivate students in a class, to help publicize a research lab or a company, or to bolster an individual's CV.

Before working out the details of the competition, it would be good to know if it would attract entries. If you would be interested in participating, in principle, not a commitment, please let me know. 

[Ulrich Junker]

Hi Gene,

Wonderful idea. A question is what kind of methods is used by Apps that are generating some puzzle or maze? Just graph algorithms? May be more interesting puzzles could be generated by CP?

Best,

Ulrich 

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On 21 Dec 2021, at 08:19, Eugene Freuder <e.fr...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Eugene Freuder]

On Dec 21, 2021, at 2:52 AM, Ulrich Junker <uli.j...@free.fr> wrote:

Hi Gene,

Wonderful idea. A question is what kind of methods is used by Apps that are generating some puzzle or maze? Just graph algorithms? May be more interesting puzzles could be generated by CP?

Indeed. Or interesting ways to interact with the puzzles. I think CP can be applied to many puzzles. And the right puzzle(s) might really ‘go viral’. :-)

Might you be interested in providing an entry? :-)