International Workshop on Constraints in Control

CC99
International Workshop on Constraints in Control
http://www.parc.xerox.com/constraints-in-control/cc99

Alexandra, Virginia USA

This workshop will be held in conjunction with CP99 - the International Conference on
Principle and Practice of Constraint Programming
http://www.isse.gmu.edu/cp99

Optimization has been used as a basis for control for decades. Constraint Programming has been applied to many domains such as configuration design, planning, and scheduling. However, up to now, theories and algorithms for constraint programming and control have been developed mostly in separate communities: while research in constraint programming has focused more on languages and constraint satisfaction techniques in discrete domains, research in control has focused more on numerical solutions to linear and non-linear constrained optimization problems. The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers from both sides together and build synergy between the two communities.

Both theory and applications are of interest to this workshop. The workshop invites submissions related to all aspects of constraints in control:

From a theoretical point of view, relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

on-line (or any-time, sequential, incremental, reactive) constraint satisfaction or constraint-based optimization techniques,
distributed, embedded or real-time constraint representation and constraint satisfaction,
discrete-continuous hybrid (mixed) or software-hardware integrated constraint satisfaction techniques,
hierarchical or modular constraint representation and solving.

From an applications point of view, relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

constraint-based modeling and control,

constraint-based software control systems,

constraint programming in control design,

applications to real systems are very welcome:

            - robots and automation,
            - real-time process control,
            - space and automobile applications,
            - on-line planning and scheduling.

The key new issues brought to the workshop are:

on-line (vs. off-line),
distributed (vs. centralized), and
real-time embedded (vs. resource unlimited).

We plan a one-day workshop. The primary forum will be scheduled presentations. A number of invited papers/talks and panel discussions may also be extended, for highlighting this interdisciplinary research area. Suggestions for speakers and panel discussions are welcome.

Submission deadline is August 30, 1999. Submitted papers shall be written in English with 12 pt font and approximately 6 A4 size pages in length. Papers shall be in PDF, Postscript, or Microsoft Word format. The proceedings will be collected and published at least on the Web.

Papers shall be sent electronically to yzhang@parc.xerox.com by August 30, 1999. Authors will be notified of acceptance by September 17, 1999. The final paper is due October 1, 1999.

Conference Dates: October 11 - October 15, 1999

Workshop Date: October 16, 1999

Organizing Committee

Ying Zhang
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA,
USA 94304
yzhang@parc.xerox.com
Tel: +1/650/812-4654
Fax: +1/650/812-4334

Markus Fromherz (Xerox PARC, USA)
fromherz@parc.xerox.com
Tel: +1/650/812-4273

Warren Jackson (Xerox PARC, USA)
wjackson@parc.xerox.com
Tel: +1/650/812-4196

Dinesh Pai (UBC, Canada)
pai@cs.ubc.ca
Tel: +1/604/822-8197