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February 03, 2015

SweConsNet Workshop May 7th, 2015 (Chalmers, Gothenburg)

Yesterday, there was an Call for presentations and participation of SweConsNet15, the 14th workshop of SweConsNet, the Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming. This year it will be held on May 7th, 2015 at Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg).
​​The Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming (SweConsNet) kindly invites you to participate in the yearly SweConsNet Workshop, which will take place at the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, on May 7th, 2015. The purpose of the workshop is to learn about ongoing research in Constraint Programming, existing projects and products, and further development of the network. SweConsNet Workshop 2015 is the 14th edition of this annual event.

The workshop is open to everybody interested in the theory and practice of constraint programming, whether based in Sweden or elsewhere. The scope of the workshop spans all areas of Constraint Programming, and is open to presentations and discussions addressing topics related to both theory and application.

We hope for your participation, and highly encourage you to submit a proposal for a presentation of your ongoing work, recent results, or of a relevant discussion topic. There are no paper submissions, reviews, or proceedings, hence recent conference/journal papers may also be presented.

To register, please send a brief statement of intent, and desirably the title and abstract of your talk, to Oskar Wigström (oskar.wigstrom at chalmers.se). In order to facilitate organization, please notify us of your intention to participate as soon as possible, and at the latest before April 23rd, 2015. The workshop does not have a registration fee.

Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested in this workshop but is not yet on the SweConsNet mailing list. They can subscribe to it by sending a message to Justin Pearson (justin.pearson at it.uu.se).

Posted by hakank at 06:57 AM |

March 29, 2014

SweConsNet 2014: Call for presentations and participation (June13 2014, Kista, Sweden)

The SweConsNet (Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming) Workshops are held annually in the spring. This year, SweConsNet-2014 is to be held in Kista, Sweden, June 13. Here's the call for presentations and participation:
The 13th workshop of SweConsNet, the Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming

Hosted by:
SCALE - KTH & SICS Collaboration in Scalable Computing Systems
SICS, Electrum, Kista, Sweden
June 13th, 2014

The Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint technology (SweConsNet) kindly invites you to participate in the yearly SweConsNet Workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to learn about ongoing research in Constraint Programming, existing projects and products, and further development of the network. SweConsNet Workshop 2014 is the 13th edition of this annual event.

The workshop is open to everybody interested in the theory and practice of constraint programming, whether based in Sweden or elsewhere. The scope of the workshop spans all areas of Constraint Programming, and is open to presentations and discussions addressing topics related to both theory and application.

We hope for your participation, and highly encourage you to submit a proposal for a presentation of your ongoing work, recent results, or of a relevant discussion topic. There are no paper submissions, reviews, or proceedings, hence recent conference/journal papers may also be presented.

To register, please send a brief statement of intent, and desirably the title and abstract of your talk, to Christian Schulte (cschulte at kth.se). In order to facilitate organization, please notify us of your intention to participate as soon as possible, and at the latest before May 28th, 2014. The workshop does not have a registration fee.

A preliminary list of speakers will be provided at the workshop website, and several time slots remain available.

Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested in this workshop but is not yet on the SweConsNet mailing list.

Best regards,
Christian Schulte

P.S.: If you wish to subscribe to the mailing list, please send a message to Justin Pearson (Justin.Pearson at it.uu.se).
Also, see the earlier workshops.

Posted by hakank at 09:14 AM |

April 22, 2013

SweConsNet Workshop 2013 - Second call for presentations and participation

Second call for presentations and participation: The 12th workshop of SweConsNet, the Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming, Hosted at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, May 27th, 2013.
The 12th Workshop of the Network of Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming

SweConsNet is the Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming.

Following the previous successful workshops, we would like to announce the 12th SweConsNet workshop, which will take place in Lund, Sweden on May 27th 2013. The purpose of this workshop is to learn about ongoing research in constraint programming, as well as existing projects and products. We will also discuss the further development of the network, such as a possible widening to other Nordic countries.

The workshop is open to everybody interested in the theory and practice of constraint programming, whether based in Sweden or elsewhere. The scope of the workshop spans all areas of Constraint Programming, and is open to presentations and discussions addressing topics related to both theory and application.

Please forward a link of this page to people who might be interested but are not yet on the SweConsNet mailing list. They can subscribe to it by sending a message to Justin.Pearson [at] it.uu.se.

We hope for your participation, and highly encourage you to submit a proposal for a presentation of your ongoing work, recent results, or of a relevant discussion topic. There are no paper submissions, reviews, or proceedings, hence recent conference/journal papers may also be presented.

To register, please fill your data in the registration form. If you want to propose a presentation, please send also the title and the abstract of your talk. In order to facilitate organization, please notify us of your intention to participate as soon as possible, and at the latest before May 10th, 2013. The workshop does not have a registration fee.

In the program so far

Participants will be presented continously

1. Jean-Noël Monette (Uppsala University): Towards solver-independent propagators

2. Håkan Kjellerstrand: What I (still) like about Constraint Programming

3. Mats Carlsson (SICS), TBD.

4. Christian Schulte (KTH), TBD.

5. Björn Regnell (LTH),A Scala DSL for Constraint-based Requirement Engeineering

6. Mehmet A. Arslan (LTH), Instructions Selection and Scheduling for DSP Kernels on Custom Architectures.
I just registered my own talk: What I (still) like about Constraint Programming. with the Presentation abstract:
This is a presentation about fascinating features in Constraint Programming: those I personally find very appealing and/or unique (e.g. compared to other programming paradigms/systems), especially regarding the modeling aspect.
I guess that many/most of the attendants know these "fascinating features" already, but all might not agree (I hope) that they are as important (or fascinating) as I find them.

Posted by hakank at 07:10 PM |

February 05, 2013

SweConsNet Workshop 2013 (Call for speakers)

The SweConsNet Workshop 2013 will take place in Lund, Sweden on May 27th 2013.

From the site:
The 12th Workshop of the Network of Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming

SweConsNet is the Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming.

Following the previous successful workshops, we would like to announce the 12th SweConsNet workshop, which will take place in Lund, Sweden on May 27th 2013. The purpose of this workshop is to learn about ongoing research in constraint programming, as well as existing projects and products. We will also discuss the further development of the network, such as a possible widening to other Nordic countries.

The workshop is open to everybody interested in the theory and practice of constraint programming, whether based in Sweden or elsewhere. The scope of the workshop spans all areas of Constraint Programming, and is open to presentations and discussions addressing topics related to both theory and application.

...

We hope for your participation, and highly encourage you to submit a proposal for a presentation of your ongoing work, recent results, or of a relevant discussion topic. There are no paper submissions, reviews, or proceedings, hence recent conference/journal papers may also be presented.
Here's the first and preliminary program (the site will be updated continuously):
  • Jean-Noël Monette (Uppsala University): Towards solver-independent propagators
  • Håkan Kjellerstrand: What I like about Constraint Programming
  • Mats Carlsson (SICS), TBD.
  • Christian Schulte (KTH), TBD.
  • Krzysztof Kuchcinski (LTH), TBD.
Krzysztof Kuchcinski is the organizer this time.

My own talk will probably be titles What I (still) like about Constraint Programming - or on the same theme: Why I'm (still) fascinated by Constraint Programming. It will be a talk about things that is so great about CP; i.e. no ground breaking research stuff (unless ...).

Also see: SweConsNet.

Posted by hakank at 05:52 PM |

March 07, 2012

SweConsNet'12 (Örebro, Sweden, May 14th 2012)

From the announcement of SweConsNet'12 - The Eleventh SweConsNet Workshop:
SweConsNet is the Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint technology.

Following the previous successful workshops, we would like to announce the 11th SweConsNet workshop, which will take place in Örebro, Sweden on May 14th 2012. The workshop is organized in collocation with the 27th annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS).

The purpose of this workshop is to learn about ongoing research in constraint programming, as well as existing projects and products. We will also discuss the further development of the network, such as a possible widening to other Nordic countries.

The workshop is open to everybody interested in the theory and practice of constraint programming, whether based in Sweden or elsewhere. The scope of the workshop spans all areas of Constraint Programming, and is open to presentations and discussions addressing topics related to both theory and application.

Please forward a link of this page to people who might be interested but are not yet on the SweConsNet mailing list. They can subscribe to it by sending a message to Justin.Pearson at it.uu.se .

We hope for your participation, and highly encourage you to submit a proposal for a presentation of your ongoing work, recent results, or of a relevant discussion topic. There are no paper submissions, reviews, or proceedings, hence recent conference/journal papers may also be presented.

To register, please send a brief statement of intent, and desirably the title and abstract of your talk, to Christian Schulte (cschulte at kth.se). In order to facilitate organization, please notify us of your intention to participate as soon as possible, and at the latest before April 30th, 2012. The workshop does not have a registration fee.

Preliminary list of speakers

  • Mats Carlsson, SICS. On the Reification of Global Constraints. Joint Work with: Nicolas Beldiceanu (EMN, Nantes, France), Pierre Flener and Justin Pearson (Uppsala University).
  • Roberto Castañeda Lozano, SICS & KTH - ICT. Code Generation is a Constraint Problem. Joint work with: Mats Carlsson (SICS), Frej Drejhammar (SICS), Christian Schulte (KTH - ICT, SICS).
  • Maria Andreina Francisco Rodriguez, Uppsala University. Consistency of Automaton-Induced Constraint Decompositions. Joint work with: Pierre Flener and Justin Pearson (Uppsala University).
  • Håkan Kjellerstrand. Comparison of >= 14 CP systems - and counting.
  • Krzysztof Kuchcinski, Lund University. TBD.
  • Federico Pecora, Örebro University. Constraint-based methods for multiple non-holonomic vehicle scheduling and control.
As you see, I plan to compare different CP systems, which will be the systems listed in Common CP Problems. Perhaps also some not yet on that list, candidates are Numberjack, JSR-331, and Scampi.

For a taste of earlier workshops, see SweConsNet:Workshops, and general information about SweConsNet.

Posted by hakank at 05:58 PM |

February 28, 2011

SweConsNet Workshop 2011, announcement

The 10th Workshop of the Network of Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint programming (SweConsNet) will be held May 30th, 2011 - Örebro University (Sweden).

Here is the current info from the SweConsNet Workshop 2011 page. Please note that the speaker list is preliminary and will change.

Originally I had planned to talk about CP and Answer Set Programming but due to certain circumstances I will not be able to do that. So I'll just be in the audience this time.

About the Workshop

The Network for Sweden-based researchers and practitioners of Constraint technology (SweConsNet) invites all researchers and practitioners to participate in the yearly SweConsNet Workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to learn about ongoing research in Constraint Programming, existing projects and products, and further development of the network. SweConsNet Workshop 2011 is the 10th edition of this annual event.

The workshop is open to everybody interested in the theory and practice of constraint programming, whether based in Sweden or elsewhere. The scope of the workshop spans all areas of Constraint Programming, and is open to presentations and discussions addressing topics related to both theory and application.

Participation and registration

We highly encourage interested individuals to submit a proposal for a presentation of ongoing work and/or recent results, or of a discussion topic. There are no paper submissions, reviews, or proceedings, hence recent conference/journal papers may also be presented. To register, please send a brief statement of intent, and desirably the title and abstract of your talk, to Federico Pecora. A preliminary list of speakers is provided below, and several time slots remain available.

In order to facilitate organization, please notify us of your intention to participate as soon as possible, and at the latest before May 16th. The workshop does not have a registration fee.

Preliminary list of speakers

Program will be announced soon on this page. All talks/titles/speakers to be confirmed.

  • Energy-Efficient Task-Mapping for Data-Driven Sensor Network Macroprogramming Using Constraint Programming
    F. Hassani Bijarbooneh, P. Flener, E. Ngai, and J. Pearson (Uppsala University)
  • CP vs. Answer Set Programming - a Practitioner's View
    H. Kjellerstrand
  • (TBD)
    C. Schulte (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Agent-based CSP with Global Constraints
    C.C. Rolf and K. Kuchcinski (Lund University)
  • A Constraint Based Approach to Integrated Planning and Scheduling
    S. Magrelli and F. Pecora (Örebro University)

SweConsNet mailing list

Please forward this link to anyone who might be interested in this workshop but is not yet on the SweConsNet mailing list. If you wish to subscribe to the mailing list, please send a message to Justin Pearson.

Location

The workshop will be held at Örebro University, in Teknik-huset. The room will be announced here prior to the event.

Directions from the central train station (Resecentrum): take bus number 1 towards Universitetet (see Länstrafiken website for updated timetable). More detailed directions available here. Complete address:

Örebro University
Fakultetsgatan 1
AASS Research Center (Teknik-huset)
SE-701 82 Örebro, SWEDEN

Organization

SweConsNet 2011 is chaired and arranged by Federico Pecora (Örebro University).

Previous workshops

Here are some of my announcements/reports from the two previous workshops that I have attended (2009 and 2010):

Posted by hakank at 06:42 PM |

May 23, 2010

SweConsNet 2010 - some brief comments

This Friday (May 22) I was attending SweConsNet Workshop 2010, co-located with SAIS Workshop 2010 in Uppsala. I wrote about the SweConsNet workshop and the talks in SweConsNet 2010: Abstract for the presentations.

Here are some brief comments.

As with the last year's workshop, it was very interesting to listen to all the talks, a good mix of theory and practical results. Somewhat to my own surprise, two of the talks I enjoyed most was the more theoretical by two PhD students: Serdar Kadıoğlu on Efficient Context-Free Grammar Constraints, and Jun He's on An automaton Constraint for Local Search. I also very much enjoyed Helmut Simonis two talks: CPTV - Generating Personalized TV Schedules, and VIZ - A Generic Visualization Toolkit for Constraint Programming (I'm not at all surprised of this enjoyment).

This year I finally met Pierre Flener who introduced me to SweConsNet in 2009 (and convinced me to talk at the 2009 workshop). I had a great time discussing many things with him, especially on the "Mosquito evening". Also, it was fun to met some readers of this blog, that actually use (or got inspiration from) my constraint programming models. Some business cards where exchanged.

Thanks to the organizers of this great workshop, and to all the persons I listened to/discussed with, for a great workshop (and for the nice weather in Uppsala :-). I hope we all met in SweConsNet Workshop 2011 .

Posted by hakank at 11:43 AM |