From fruehwir@informatik.uni-muenchen.de Thu Aug 14 01:02:03 1997 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:19:11 PDT From: Thom Fruehwirth Reply-To: Theory-A - TheoryNet World-Wide Events , Thom Fruehwirth To: THEORYNT@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Subject: NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION CP97 Workshop on Constraint Reasoning on the Internet THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW DEADLINE: AUGUST 17! CP97 Workshop on Constraint Reasoning on the Internet Schloss Hagenberg, Austria, 1 November 1997 The half-day workshop will be held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP97), October 29 - November 1, 1997 SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP Constraint reasoning has proven its merits in a variety of application areas including decision support systems. The goal of the workshop is to assess whether and in what way constraint reasoning and programming may be applied to developing intelligent applications for the Web including agent-based systems. We believe that constraint-based programming will be essential for intelligent internet applications, be they called intelligent information systems, intelligent agents, etc. The reason is that since constraints can express and deal with partial information, they address some of the essential issues of intelligent applications on the WWW: - Internet applications are likely to be distributed and thus, locally, complete information may not be available at all times. - The internet user may not be able to give all the necessary input, but still expect to get some answer. - The internet user may not want to reveal all he knows to an application for security or privacy reasons. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - internet applications - intelligent agents - WWW interfaces, interactivity - user-specific content presentation, on-the-fly web page creation - CLP-applets and internet libraries - what do existing LP libraries offer? - internet information search, data mining and information retrieval - decision support systems that can/should be put on the internet - concurreny and distributed computing w.r.t. internet Papers that combine theory and practice are especially welcome. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submission deadline is 17 August 1997. Authors are invited to submit original papers written in English with up to 10 A4 pages by electronic mail in self-contained uuencoded Postscript format to Thom Fruehwirth at fruehwir@informatik.uni-muenchen.de. Decisions on acceptance will be sent to authors by 19 September 1997. PUBLICATION An informal proceedings of the workshop will be available to the workshop participants. Final copies will be due by 5 October 1997. ORGANISATION Thom Fruehwirth, LMU Munich, Germany, fruehwir@informatik.uni-muenchen.de Manuel Hermengildo, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, herme@fi.upm.es Paul Tarau, Univ. de Moncton, Canada, tarau@info.umoncton.ca Philippe Codognet, INRIA, France, Philippe.Codognet@inria.fr Francesca Rossi, Univ. di Pisa, Italy, rossi@di.unipi.it IMPORTANT DATES 17 August 1997: Paper submissions (by email only) 19 September 1997: Acceptance decisions 5 October 1997: Final copy due 1 November 1997: Workshop FURTHER INFORMATION This and more information related to the topic of the workshop may be found in the internet at URL: http://www.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/fruehwir/wcicp97.html