<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="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:12px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CPAIOR 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">==============================================================================</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The Fourteenth International Conference on Integration of Artificial</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) techniques in Constraint</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Programming (CPAIOR 2017) invites participants to register for the conference. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Conference Location: Padova, Italy </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Conference Dates: June 5 - June 8, 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Conference Website: http://cpaior2017.dei.unipd.it</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Conference Series: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vanhoeve/cpaior/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Contact: cpaior2017@easychair.org</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">REGISTRATION DEADLINE: **May 31**</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">On-site registration is possible, at an additional cost.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The conference program includes:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* A master class on "Computational Techniques for optimization"</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* A workshop of the EURO working group on "Data Science Meets Optimization".</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DETAILS</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">==============================================================================</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The CPAIOR registration can be done on-line at:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">http://www.sabiwork.it/registration/</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- The deadline for regular registrations is: May 31, 2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- It is also possible to register on-site (at an increased fee)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The fees are as follows:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Regular: 450€ (on-site: 550€)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Student: 280€ (on-site: 350€)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Master class & workshop only: 100€ (on-site: 120€)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Social dinner ticket: 60€ (on-site: 80€)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- All fees already include a 22% VAT.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- The conference fee includes the master class & workshop</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- The conference fee does _not_ include the social dinner ticket</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- It is possible to buy up to one extra social dinner ticket per registration,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> for accompanying persons</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The proceedings will be available in electronic format</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">CONFERENCE DETAILS</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">==============================================================================</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers from</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Research (OR) to present new techniques or applications in combinatorial</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">optimization, and to provide an opportunity for researchers in one area to</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">learn about techniques in the others.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">A main objective of this conference series is also to give these researchers</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from different fields</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">can lead to interesting results on large and complex problems.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The program covers broadly the following topics:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Inference and relaxation methods: constraint propagation, cutting planes,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> global constraints, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, Lagrangian and</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> convex relaxations, heuristic functions based on relaxations. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Search methods: branch and bound, intelligent backtracking, incomplete</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> search, randomized search, portfolios, column generation, Benders</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> decomposition or any other decomposition methods, local search and</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> metaheuristics</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Integration of machine learning and optimization: learning-based search and</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> heuristics, use of predictive models in optimization, constraint acquisition,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> optimization for training machine learning models</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Integration methods: solver communication, model transformations and solver</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> selection, parallel and distributed resolution techniques, models, and</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> solvers. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Modeling methods: comparison of models, symmetry breaking, uncertainty,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> dominance relationships.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Innovative Applications of CP/AI/OR techniques.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Implementation of CP/AI/OR techniques and optimization systems.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">CONFERENCE SCHEDULE</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">==============================================================================</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The detailed program and schedule are available:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- On the conference web site, at: http://cpaior2017.dei.unipd.it</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- In PDF at: http://cpaior2017.dei.unipd.it/programCPAIOR2017.pdf</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">June 5: Master class and workshop</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Master class on "Computation Techniques for Optimization", with lectures:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- "Solving Mixed Integer Programs in Practice", </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- "MiniCP: A Minimalistic Educational Solver",</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- "Modeling, Constraint Solving and Model Manipulation",</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- "Searching in Style and coping with Hybrids"</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- The first lecture will be held by prof. Tobias Achterberg,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> (http://www.zib.de/members/achterberg)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- The remaining lectures will be jointly held by:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> - prof. Laurent Michel (http://ash.engr.uconn.edu/~ldm/work/)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> - prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck (http://pascalvanhentenryck.engin.umich.edu)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> - prof. Pierre Schaus (https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pschaus/)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">EURO group workshop on "Data Science Meets Optimization"</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Workshop web page: http://ds-o.org/index.php/workshops/dso-workshops-2017</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Keynote talks by:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> - prof. Tias Guns (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> - prof. Holger Hoos (Universiteit Leiden)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">June 6 -- June 8: Technical program</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Presentations of the 32 accepted papers and 4 Fast Track papers which are</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> accepted for publication on the "Constraints" journal</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">- Two invited talks, by</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> - Prof. Christian Kersting, "Relational Quadratic Programming: Exploiting</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> Symmetries for Modelling and Solving Quadratic Programs"</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> (http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/PERSONAL/kersting.html)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> - Prof. Andrea Lodi, "On the role of (machine) learning in (mathematical)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> optimization" (https://www.gerad.ca/en/people/andrea-lodi)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">More details are available on the conference web site</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">ORGANIZERS</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">==============================================================================</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Program Chairs: Domenico Salvagnin and Michele Lombardi</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Conference Chair: Domenico Salvagnin</div></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1495095002292731136" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div></div></body></html>