International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Satisfaction 
             September 22, 2000
       http://liawww.epfl.ch/cp2000dcs

  Held in conjunction with: 
Sixth International Conference on 
Principle and Practice of Constraint Programming 
(CP2000), Singapore  
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cp2000 


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
but are not limited to: 
 -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,
presenting ongoing work, shall be preferably written in 
English, up to 15 pages. Papers are expected in 
(compressed) Postscript or PDF format. 
The submitted papers have to be sent electronically 
to cp2000-dcs@lia.di.epfl.ch with the subject: 
"cp2000dcp 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: Paper submissions. 
August 10, 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 


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

Organizing Committee

Marius Calin Silaghi (EPFL, Switzerland)
silaghi@lia.di.epfl.ch 

Boi Faltings (EPFL, Switzerland)
faltings@lia.di.epfl.ch 

Makoto Yokoo (NTT, Japan)
yokoo@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp 

Djamila Sam-Haroud (EPFL, Switzerland)
haroud@lia.di.epfl.ch 

Christian Bessiére (LIRMM-CNRS, France)
bessiere@lirmm.fr