Call for papers, DCR 2013

[William Yeoh]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the DCR workshop that will take place this
year at IJCAI 2013, Beijing.

Please find the call for papers below.
You are also invited to visit the workshop's page at:
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~wyeoh/DCR2013/

All the best,
William and Roie



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The International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR)
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August 3 or 4, 2013

Held in conjunction with IJCAI 2013
Beijing, China

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~wyeoh/DCR2013/

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Call for Papers
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Workshop Description:

Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) problems arise when pieces of
information about variables, constraints or both are relevant to
independent but communicating agents. They provide a promising
framework to deal with the increasingly diverse range of distributed
real-world problems emerging from the evolution of computation and
communication technologies.

The new challenges posed by solving Distributed Constraint Reasoning
Problems include dealing with resource restrictions (such as limits on
time and communication), privacy requirements, exploiting
opportunities for cooperation, and designing conflict resolution
strategies.

The workshop addresses modeling, formulation and solution of
Distributed Constraint Reasoning problems, including both Distributed
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems. The workshop
encourages submissions on all topics related to Distributed Constraint
Reasoning, including (but not limited to) the following:

* unified frameworks for distributed constraint reasoning
* complete and incomplete algorithms for solving distributed
constraint reasoning problems
* privacy issues in distributed constraint reasoning
* problem solving in systems with self-interested agents
* negotiation among self-interested agents
* distributed constraint propagation and consistency
* generation and formulation/modeling of distributed constraint reasoning
* applications of distributed constraint reasoning



Workshop Motivation:

The goal of the DCR workshop series is to bring together researchers
from the many different areas that are relevant to distributed
constraint reasoning so that commonalities and relationships can be
discovered and understanding improved. DCR is an inter-disciplinary
research area involving the Constraint Programming, Artificial
Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems communities.

As such, this workshop has historically rotated its location between
the three major conferences in each of these areas: IJCAI (in 2001,
2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011), CP (in 2000, 2004 and 2007) and
AAMAS (in 2002, 2006, 2008 and 2010).



Workshop Format:

At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the
workshop. The workshop will emphasize group discussion so
presentations will be balanced with discussion time. Proposals for
panels/discussion groups during the workshop are welcome.



Workshop Attendance:

The workshop is open to all members of the AI community but the number
of participants is strictly limited to 75 participants.



Submission Guidelines:

Participants should submit a paper (maximum 15 pages), describing
their work on one or more of the topics relevant to the workshop.
Alternatively, participants may submit a shorter paper (maximum 5
pages) presenting a research statement or perspective on topics
relevant to the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented during the
workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Authors are requested to prepare their papers by following the LNCS
Springer instructions found at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All submissions are conducted via the DCR 2013 EasyChair website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcr2013. Submissions should
include the name(s), affiliations, and email addresses of all authors
in the body of the email. We welcome the submission of papers rejected
from the IJCAI 2013 technical program. The deadline for receipt of
submissions is April 20, 2013. Papers received after this date may not
be reviewed.

Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality,
novelty, significance, and clarity. Each submission will be thoroughly
reviewed by at least two program committee members.

For questions about the submission process, contact the workshop co-chairs.



Important Dates:

* April 20, 2013 - Submission Deadline
* May 20, 2013 - Acceptance Notification
* May 30, 2013 - Camera-Ready Deadline
* August 3 or 4, 2013 - Workshop Date



Contact (Workshop Co-Chairs):

Roie Zivan
Industrial Engineering and Management
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O.B 653
Be'er Sheva 84105
Israel
+972-8-6472593
ziv...@bgu.ac.il
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~zivanr


William Yeoh
Computer Science Department
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
USA
+1-575-646-5666
wy...@cs.nmsu.edu
http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~wyeoh





Program Committee:

* Christian Bessiere (bess...@lirmm.fr), LIRMM, France
* Jesus Cerquides (cerq...@iiia.csic.es), IIIA, Spain
* Boi Faltings (boi.fa...@epfl.ch), EPFL, Switzerland
* Alessandro Farinelli (alessandro...@univr.it), University of
Verona, Italy
* Katsutoshi Hirayama (hira...@maritime.kobe-u.ac.jp), Kobe University, Japan
* Manish Jain (manis...@usc.edu), University of Southern California, USA
* Christopher Kiekintveld (cdkiek...@utep.edu), University of
Texas at El Paso, USA
* Robert Lass (url...@cs.drexel.edu), Drexel University, USA
* Amnon Meisels (a...@cs.bgu.ac.il), Ben-Gurion University, Israel
* Pedro Meseguer (pe...@iiia.csic.es), IIIA, Spain
* Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (j...@iiia.csic.es), IIIA, Spain
* Marius Silaghi (msil...@fit.edu), Florida Institute of Technology, USA
* Matthew Taylor (tay...@eecs.wsu.edu), Washington State University, USA
* Meritxell Vinyals (meri...@iiia.csic.es), University of Verona, Italy
* William Yeoh (wy...@cs.nmsu.edu), New Mexico State University, USA
* Makoto Yokoo (yo...@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp), Kyushu University, Japan
* Roie Zivan (ziv...@bgu.ac.il), Ben-Gurion University, Israel

[William Yeoh]

Dear colleagues,

We just wanted to send out a second call for papers for the upcoming DCR workshop that will take place this year at IJCAI 2013, Beijing. 

The deadline for paper submissions is April 20. More information is available on the workshop's page at http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~wyeoh/DCR2013/

Cheers,