<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:12px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CPAIOR 2017</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">==============================================================================</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The Fourteenth International Conference on Integration of Artificial</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) techniques in Constraint</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Programming (CPAIOR 2017) invites participants to register for the conference. </font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Conference Location: Padova, Italy </font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Conference Dates: June 5 - June 8, 2017</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Conference Website: http://cpaior2017.dei.unipd.it</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Conference Series: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vanhoeve/cpaior/</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Contact: cpaior2017@easychair.org</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE: **April 15**</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The conference program includes a master class on "Computational Techniques for</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">optimization" and a workshop of the EURO working group on "Data Science Meets</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Optimization (DSO)".</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DETAILS</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">==============================================================================</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The CPAIOR registration can be done on-line at:</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">http://www.sabiwork.it/registration/</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- The deadline for early registrations is April: 15, 2017</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- The deadline for regular registrations is: May 31, 2017</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- It is also possible to register on-site (at an increased fee)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The fees are as follows:</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Type | Early bird | Late | On-site</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">----------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Regular | 390€ | 450€ | 550€</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Student | 220€ | 280€ | 350€</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Master class & workshop only | 80€ | 100€ | 120€</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Social dinner ticket | 60€ | 60€ | 80€</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- All fees already include a 22% VAT.</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- The conference fee includes the master class & workshop</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- The conference fee does _not_ include the social dinner ticket</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- It is possible to buy up to one extra social dinner ticket per registration,</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> for accompanying persons</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The proceedings will be available in electronic format</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">CONFERENCE DETAILS</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">==============================================================================</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers from</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Research (OR) to present new techniques or applications in combinatorial</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">optimization, and to provide an opportunity for researchers in one area to</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">learn about techniques in the others.</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">A main objective of this conference series is also to give these researchers</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from different fields</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">can lead to interesting results on large and complex problems.</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The program covers broadly the following topics:</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">* Inference and relaxation methods: constraint propagation, cutting planes,</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> global constraints, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, Lagrangian and</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> convex relaxations, heuristic functions based on relaxations. </font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">* Search methods: branch and bound, intelligent backtracking, incomplete</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> search, randomized search, portfolios, column generation, Benders</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> decomposition or any other decomposition methods, local search and</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> metaheuristics</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">* Integration of machine learning and optimization: learning-based search and</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> heuristics, use of predictive models in optimization, constraint acquisition,</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> optimization for training machine learning models</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">* Integration methods: solver communication, model transformations and solver</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> selection, parallel and distributed resolution techniques, models, and</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> solvers. </font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">* Modeling methods: comparison of models, symmetry breaking, uncertainty,</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> dominance relationships.</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">* Innovative Applications of CP/AI/OR techniques.</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">* Implementation of CP/AI/OR techniques and optimization systems.</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">CONFERENCE SCHEDULE</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">==============================================================================</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">The detailed program and schedule are available:</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- On the conference web site, at: http://cpaior2017.dei.unipd.it</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- In PDF at: http://cpaior2017.dei.unipd.it/programCPAIOR2017.pdf</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">June 5: Master class and workshop</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Master class on "Computation Techniques for Optimization", with lectures:</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- "Solving Mixed Integer Programs in Practice", </font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- "MiniCP: A Minimalistic Educational Solver",</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- "Modeling, Constraint Solving and Model Manipulation",</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- "Searching in Style and coping with Hybrids"</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- The first lecture will be held by prof. Tobias Achterberg,</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> (http://www.zib.de/members/achterberg)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- The remaining lectures will be jointly held by:</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> - prof. Laurent Michel (http://ash.engr.uconn.edu/~ldm/work/)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> - prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck (http://pascalvanhentenryck.engin.umich.edu)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> - prof. Pierre Schaus (https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pschaus/)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">EURO group workshop on "Data Science Meets Optimization"</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Workshop web page: http://ds-o.org/index.php/workshops/dso-workshops-2017</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Keynote talks by:</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> - prof. Tias Guns (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> - prof. Holger Hoos (Universiteit Leiden)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">June 6 -- June 8: Technical program</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Presentations of the 32 accepted papers and 4 Fast Track papers which are</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> accepted for publication on the "Constraints" journal</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">- Two invited talks, by</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> - Prof. Christian Kersting, Relational Quadratic Programming: Exploiting</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> Symmetries for Modelling and Solving</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> (http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/PERSONAL/kersting.html)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> - Prof. Andrea Lodi, "On the role of (machine) learning in (mathematical)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"> optimization" (https://www.gerad.ca/en/people/andrea-lodi)</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">More details are available on the conference web site</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">ORGANIZERS</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">==============================================================================</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Program Chairs: Domenico Salvagnin and Michele Lombardi</font></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Courier New">Conference Chair: Domenico Salvagnin</font></div><div><font face="Courier New"><br></font></div></div><font face="Courier New"><br></font><div id="bloop_sign_1491329230896848896" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></body></html>