apologies for multiple copies ------------------------ C A L L F O R P A P E R S Special Track at The 16th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-03) on CONSTRAINT SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING Held in co-operation The American Association for Artificial Intelligence http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~osullb/flairs2003/ ____________________________________________________________________________ _ Aims and Scope -------------- Constraints have emerged as the basis of a representational and computational paradigm that draws from many disciplines and can be brought to bear on many problem domains. This special track is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints including algorithms, applications, environments, languages, models, and systems. We also solicit papers from any domain employing constraints, including computational linguistics, configuration, decision support, design, diagnosis, graphics, hardware verification, molecular biology, planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, resource allocation, robotics, scheduling, software engineering, temporal reasoning, vision, visualization, and user interfaces. Papers that bridge disciplines or combine theory and practice or discuss novel reasoning methods are especially welcome. Special attention is focused around the use of constraint technologies in the networking, wireless and internet fields. Submissions ----------- We invite authors to submit papers on research on constraint solving and programming, with particular emphasis on assessing the current state of the art and identifying future directions. All submissions must be original work. Complete manuscripts must be no more than 10 double-spaced pages (3400 words) in length in postscript or pdf format. Please submit papers directly to FLAIRS (http://www.flairs.com/flairs2003/). Detailed submission guidelines are available from the FLAIRS-2003 web-site (http://www.cs.uwp.edu/flairssubsys/index.php3). Papers, of sufficiently high quality, will be selected to appear in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT). Important Dates --------------- Deadline paper submissions October 25, 2002 Notification of acceptance January 7, 2002 Camera-ready deadline February 17, 2003 Organising Committee -------------------- Barry O'Sullivan (Primary Contact) Cork Constraint Computation Centre Department of Computer Science University College Cork, Ireland Email: b.osullivan@cs.ucc.ie Web: http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~osullb/ Stefano Bistarelli C.N.R. Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa and Universita "G. D'Annunzio" Dipartimento di Scienze, Pescara Em ail: Stefano.Bistarelli@iit.cnr.it Tel: +39-050-315.3438 Fax: +39-050-315.2593 Web: http://www.sci.unich.it/~bista Program Committee ----------------- Christian Bessiere, LIRMM, France Philippe Codognet, University of Paris and INRIA, France Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland Helene Fargier, Laboratoire IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm, Germany Carmen Gervet, IC Parc, Imperial College, UK Javier Larrosa, UPC, Spain Francesca Rossi, University of Padov, Italy Marius-Calin Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology Mark Wallace, IC Parc, Imperial College, UK Toby Walsh, University College Cork, Ireland