--------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers, Abstracts, and Discussion Topics: CROCS at CP-12 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth International Workshop on Constraint Reasoning and Optimization for Computational Sustainability October 8, 2012, Quebec City, QC, Canada http://www.computational-sustainability.org/crocs-at-cp12 To be held in conjunction with CP-12, the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (http://www.cp2012.org) Computational Sustainability is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field that aims to apply techniques from computer science, information science, operations research, applied mathematics, and statistics for balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs for sustainable development. The main focus is on developing computational and mathematical models and methods for decision making concerning the management and allocation of resources in order to help solve some of the most challenging problems related to sustainability. Such models are traditionally studied in disciplines as diverse as ecology, natural resource management, biodiversity, atmospheric science, biological and environmental engineering, and resource economics. Creating and optimizing these models, however, often presents a scalability challenge, which limits what scientists can analyze using relatively simple techniques. Bringing in advanced computational methods and strong integration of computer science disciplines, as a tool to solve these large scale problems, holds tremendous promise for the enrichment of all involved fields. The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers in order to facilitate the exchange of ideas, presentation of recent or preliminary results, and discussion of promising directions for the use of computational methods to tackle a variety of challenging sustainability problems. While the main focus of this workshop will be on computational methods related to constraint programming (CP), constraint optimization, and their integration with other domains, we also encourage submissions in other computational areas and techniques relevant to sustainability problems. Inspired by the multidisciplinary track this year, we aim to attract and encourage presentation of interdisciplinary research that links CP technology with other core computer science domains such as machine learning, data mining, game theory, simulation and others. Furthermore we encourage presentations, papers and talks that link such domains with CP research on large scale sustainability applications. The workshop will be organized as a hybrid of a traditional workshop and a birds-of-a-feather event, with a mix of short and long talks, invited speakers, as well as discussion sessions. We solicit three kinds of submissions for this workshop: (A) Papers reporting new results as well as preliminary or recently published work in the field of computational sustainability. There is no specific formatting requirement or page limit. Papers reporting results that have already been published or presented at another venue should clearly indicate so. (B) Abstracts (up to 2 pages) reporting preliminary results, describing an open computational sustainability problem, proposing ideas for bringing in new computational methods into the field, or summarizing the focus areas of a group working on computational sustainability. (C) Proposals for leading a discussion topic on a specific area, open problems, or any other topic of interest to computational sustainability. Such proposals should consist of a one page description of the proposed topic and how the proposers envision the session. An example format would be a short presentation by the discussion lead followed by an open discussion focused on a few specific questions. Please note that there will not be any published proceedings for the workshop. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Submission Deadline: *** extended deadline *** August 31, 2012 (Friday), 11:59 Pacific Time Notification: Sept 15, 2012 (Saturday) Workshop: October 8, 2012 (Monday) ** SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION, ATTENDANCE ** Papers, abstracts, and discussion proposals should be submitted as a PDF file by using the EasyChair submission page for the workshop: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crocsatcp2012 Please use US Letter size page with a 1 inch margin on all four sides, and 10 pt or 11 pt font for the main body of the paper. Other than this, there are no specific formatting or style requirements. If using LaTeX, the following header should produce the correct format: \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage{fullpage} \setlength\textheight{9in} At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. The workshop will be OPEN TO EVERYONE to attend, regardless of whether they have an accepted submission. However, CP-12 organization requires that all workshop attendees must pay either the CP registration fee including the workshop fee or only the workshop fee. For detailed registration information, please refer to the CP-12 web page: http://www.cp2012.org. ** WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ** Bistra Dilkina (co-chair), Cornell University, USA Theo Damoulas (co-chair), Cornell University, USA Carla P. Gomes (co-chair), Cornell University, USA Ashish Sabharwal (co-chair), IBM Research, USA Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia, Canada Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia, Canada Michela Milano, University of Bologna, Italy Barry O'Sullivan, 4C and University College Cork, Ireland Meinolf Sellmann, IBM Research, USA Bart Selman, Cornell University, USA Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Toby Walsh, NICTA and UNSW, Australia ** CONTACT INFORMATION ** If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to crocs-at-cp12@computational-sustainability.org. Sponsored by the Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS), Cornell University, USA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------