The workshop addresses modeling, formulation and solution of  CSPs where variables, constraints or both are distributed among a set of independent but communicating agents.

 Scientific issues to be discussed at the workshop include:

•  unified frameworks for distributed CSP.
•  algorithms for solving distributed CSP.
•  privacy issues in distributed CSP.
•  distributed constraint propagation and consistency.
•  over-constrained distributed CSP.

•  negotiation among self-interested agents.
•  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 make progress towards a common understanding and framework in which the approach can be developed and brought into practice.
 

Submissions

Submission deadline is July 15, 2000. Submitted papers shall be preferably written in English, up to 15 pages. Papers are expected in Postscript or PDF format. The submitted papers have to be sent electronically tocp2000-dcs@lia.di.epfl.ch with the subject: "cp2000dcs Submission". We strongly encourage electronic submissions, but if this is impossible, a hard copy may be sent by post to the contact address below.

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

Dates
 

• July 15, 2000: The submitted papers shall be sent electronically to cp2000-dcs@lia.di.epfl.ch.
• August 1, 2000: Authors will be notified of acceptance.
• September 1, 2000: The final paper is due.

Conference Dates: September 18 - September 22, 2000
Workshop Date: September 22, 2000

Proceedings

Hard copies of the proceedings will be available at the workshop. They will also appear under the form of a book. Electronic copies will be available on the website of the workshop. The latex users may use for their final versions the styles found at http://liawww.epfl.ch/cp2000dcs/styles.

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

Schedule

The schedule can be found at http://liawww.epfl.ch/cp2000dcs/schedule.html.

Organizing Committee

Boi Faltings (EPFLCH-1015 Ecublens, Switzerland)
faltings@lia.di.epfl.chTel: +41-21-693-2738 Fax: +41-21-693-5225

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

Djamila Sam-Haroud (EPFLCH-1015 Ecublens, Switzerland)
haroud@lia.di.epfl.chTel: +41-21-693-5209 Fax: +41-21-693-5225
 

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

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