Call for Papers & Participation

1st International Workshop on Local Search Techniques
in Constraint Satisfaction

LSCS'04

At the Tenth International Conference on

Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP2004

27 September 2004
Toronto, Canada


Programme


Accepted Papers

The proceedings are available from here.


Overview

Local search is an efficient method for solving hard combinatorial (optimisation) problems. Problem instances that are still infeasible for global search may be solvable using local search techniques. In recent years, systems providing high-level modelling abstractions and efficient solving mechanisms have evolved from the constraint programming community. These systems provide general frameworks for problem solving using neighbourhood techniques. Local search and constraint satisfaction is an active area of research that attracts and unites many different fields such as computer science and mathematics.

This workshop will focus on any aspect concerning local search. This includes, but is not limited to, new search heuristics, meta-heuristics, techniques for (incremental) cost calculations, local search systems, comparing or combining global and local search, and applications solved using neighbourhood techniques.


Information for Participants

This will be a half-day workshop, open to anyone attending CP'04. At least one author of an accepted submission must attend the workshop. Anyone attending the workshop must pay the workshop registration fee, as well as the CP'04 registration fee.

All submitted papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will be given a presentation time slot at the workshop (subject to timing constraints) and appear in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be published online on this web page and hardcopies will be distributed at CP'04.


Paper Submission

To submit a paper, send an email, before the submission deadline below, to lscs04@list.it.uu.se, with title, abstract, the authors' names and emails, the name of the corresponding author, and the paper in ps or pdf format. Please make sure that the title and the abstract are in the email in text format. The paper should not exceed 15 pages and be formatted using the LNCS style.


Important Dates

Submission deadline: 21 July 2004
Notifications: 4 August 2004
Camera-ready deadline: 18 August 2004
Workshop: 27 September 2004

Organisation

Workshop Organisers

Justin Pearson (Main organiser)
Department of Information Technology, Division of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Box 337, S-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
+46 18 471 7292 (phone), +46 18 51 19 25 (fax); justin@docs.uu.se

Markus Bohlin
Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), IDT/MdH, Vargens Vret, S:ta Ursulas Väg 2A, Västerĺs, Sweden.
+46 21 10 70 23 (phone), +46 21 10 14 60 (fax); markus.bohlin@sics.se

Magnus Ågren
Department of Information Technology, Division of Computing Science, Uppsala University, Box 337, S-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
+46 18 471 7894 (phone), +46 18 51 19 25 (fax); agren@csd.uu.se

Program Committee

Markus Bohlin, SICS, Västerås, Sweden
Justin Pearson, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Gilles Pesant, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Steven Prestwich, University College, Cork, Ireland
Meinolf Sellmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Magnus Ågren, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden


Last updated: 2004-04-21