Distributed Constraint Satisfaction 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 fast evolution of communication technologies.

The new challenges posed by solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems are related to meeting privacy requirements, exploiting opportunities for cooperation, and designing conflict resolution strategies.

The workshop addresses modeling, formulation and solution of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Scientific issues to be discussed at the workshop include:

• unified frameworks for distributed CSP
• algorithms for solving distributed CSP
• privacy issues in distributed CSP
• negotiation among self-interested agents
• distributed constraint propagation and consistency
• over-constrained distributed CSP
• generation and formulation/modeling of distributed CSP
• phase transition in distributed CSP
• applications of distributed CSP.

Due to the technical advances in multi-agent systems, Distributed CSPs have become a technology that fits many real applications.  This workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers to continue progress towards a common understanding and framework in which the approach can be developed and brought into practice. The workshop is interesting for people involved in Constraint Satisfaction or Agents communities.
 

Submissions

Submission deadline is March 15, 2001. Submitted papers shall be written in English, up to 15 pages. Papers are expected in Postscript or PDF format. The submitted papers have to be sent electronically to ijcai2001-dcr@lia.di.epfl.ch with the subject: "ijcai2001dcr Submission". We strongly encourage electronic submissions, but if this is impossible, a hard copy may be sent by post to the contact address below.
We encourage the submission of papers refused at the IJCAI-01 technical program. Such submissions can also arrive by the IJCAI-01 Acceptance Notification date: March 19, 2001.

Do not forget to mention your contact address and e-mail or telephone (e.g. in a footnote on the title page).

Dates
 

• March 23, 2001: The submitted papers shall be sent electronically to ijcai2001-dcr@lia.di.epfl.ch.
• April 1, 2001: Authors will be notified of acceptance.
• April 20, 2001: Deadline for camera ready papers.

Conference Dates: August 4-10, 2001
Workshop Date: August 4, 2001

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Registration

Registration for the DCR workshop is possible for all participants of the IJCAI-2001 conference. Authors of (accepted) papers are given priority, then the participants are accepted in the order in which they have expressed their interest.

You can express your interest in attending the workshop by writing an e-mail to ijcai2001-dcr@lia.di.epfl.ch.

Contact
Marius-Calin Silaghi
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL)
CH-1015 Ecublens, Switzerland
Marius.Silaghi@epfl.ch
Tel: +41-21-693-5209 Fax: +41-21-693-5225

Organizing Committee

Boi Faltings (EPFL, CH-1015 Ecublens, Switzerland)
Boi.Faltings@epfl.ch Tel: +41-21-693-2738 Fax: +41-21-693-5225

Makoto Yokoo  (NTT, Kyoto 619-0237 Japan)
yokoo@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp Tel: +81-774-93-5231 Fax: +81-774-93-5285

Christian Bessière (LIRMM-CNRS34392 MONTPELLIER Cedex 5, France)
bessiere@lirmm.fr Tel: +33-4 67 41 85 39 Fax: +33-4 67 41 85 00

Rina Dechter (UCI, ICS Department 444 Irvine, CA 92697-3425)
dechter@ics.uci.edu Tel: +1-949 824 6556

Djamila Sam-Haroud (EPFL, CH-1015 Ecublens, Switzerland)
Jamila.Sam@epfl.ch Tel: +41-21-693-5209 Fax: +41-21-693-5225
 
 

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