My Constraint Programming Blog

In a few days it's time for CP-2013 (The 19th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming), in Uppsala, Sweden.

During the conference, I will:

• blog (at this blog)
• tweet, at hakankj, using the tag #cp2013 (not all the hits are about the real CP-2013 conference though). Some tweets will probably also be tagged with #copr.
• and perhaps also at Google+

I don't know when, how often or how much this reporting will be. It will be just from my own perspective and not a full report on every talk. Hopefully it will convey that I have looked forward to this conference a long time, both listening to the talk (of course), and also to finally meet all the great guys I've just have had mail contact with - or just read about - since I started to be interested in constraint programming (in 2008).

I'm quite sure there will be other that blog/tweet/etc about and during the conference.

Some especially interesting things that I'm looking forward to (for miscellaneous reasons):

• The workshop I will attend (and am a co-organizer of): CP Solvers: Modeling, Applications, Integration, and Standardization. Unfortunately this means that I miss the the other interesting workshops
• The Invited talks (especially the presentation of The Objective­CP Optimization System by Pascal Van Hentenryck and Laurent Michel.)
• MiniZinc Challenge Result. The MiniZinc challenges are always interesting to follow. This year Neng-Fa Zhou and I have submitted the Picat FlatZinc solver, so it will be extra exciting. Here is the result of the earlier MiniZinc challenges (2008-2012).
• First International Lightning Model and Solve Competition, organized by Peter J. Stuckey, myself and with greatly appreciated technical support by Farshid Hassani Bijarbooneh.

This will be a fun week!

Here are some useful links:

• CP-2013
• Schedule
• University floorplans
• Local information, venue