PC Chair Report

Jimmy LeeThe Chinese University of Hong Kong

Submissions• Authors of submitted papers from 33 places– Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada,

Chile, China , Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

• Short submissions treated with the same high standard of long submissions

• No long submissions were accepted as short papers

Some Statistics

• Research Track– Submitted: 139– Accepted: 44 long and 7 short (37%)

• Application Track– Submitted: 20– Accepted: 7 (35%)

Review Process

• Each paper taken care by 3-4 PC members

• Rebuttal opportunity by authors

• Discussions and more external reviews until consensuses

• Shepherding

Programme at a Glance

Invited Talks

• Solving Problems with CP: Four Common Pitfalls to AvoidJean-Charles Règin on September 13th, Tuesday at 0925

• Orchestrating Satisfiability EnginesLeonardo de Moura on September 14th, Wednesday at 0900

• Operations Research and Constraint Programming at GoogleLaurent Perron on September 16th, Friday at 0900

ACP Awards Winners Presentations

• September 15, Thursday starting at 0900

• ACP Research Excellence AwardPatrick Prosser (Glasglow)

• ACP Doctoral Research AwardStanislav Zivny (Oxford)

Distinguished Papers• Best Application Paper

The Design of Cryptographic S-Boxes Using CSPsVenkatesh Ramamoorthy, Marius Silaghi, Toshihiro Matsui, Katsutoshi Hirayama and Makoto YokooSeptember 16, Friday at 1000

• Runner-upOptimal Carpet CuttingAndreas Schutt, Peter J. Stuckey and Andrew R. Verden September 16, Friday at 1400

Distinguished Papers (cont’d)

• Best Research PaperOn Minimal Constraint NetworksGeorg GottlobSeptember 14, Wednesday at 1000

• Best Student PaperOctagonal Domains for Continuous ConstraintsMarie Pelleau, Charlotte Truchet and Frederic BenhamouSeptember 13, Tuesday at 1055

Technical Sessions and Tutorials• 16 technical sessions

• Tutorials– Automatic Solver Configuration and Solver Portfolios

Meinolf Sellmann (IBM)September 13th, Tuesday [Aula Magna] at 1400

– Integer Programming for Constraint ProgrammersChris Beck (University of Toronto), Timo Berdhold, Ambros Gleixner, Stefan Heinz, Kati Wolter (Zuse Institute Berlin)September 14th, Wednesday [Aula Magna] at 1055

– Machine Learning and Data Mining: Challenges and Opportunities for Constraint ProgrammingLuc De Raedt, Siegfried Nijssen (K.U. Leuven)September 15th, Thursday [Aula Magna] at 1400

Doctoral Programme

• Doctoral Poster Sessions on September 14 & 15 (Wed & Thurs) during lunch

• Doctoral TutorialMastering the Empirical MazeLaurent Michel (University of Connecticut)September 15th, Thursday [Aula 8] at 1400

Last but not Least …

• Celebration of Gene Freuder’s retirement

• A panel on “Future of CP” at the very last session to conclude the conference

• Lucky draw: iPad 2 and more

• Party Hearty: Drinks and finger food

Panel: Future of CP• Organizer and Moderator: Francesca Rossi• Panelists– Gene Freuder– Jimmy Lee– Barry O’Sullivan– Gilles Peasant– Meinolf Sellman– Toby Walsh– Pascal Van Hentenryck (via Skype)

• Survey on Top 10 Challenges for CP

Thanks

The Chairs

• Conference Chair: Stefano Bistarelli• Application Track Chair: Helmut Simonis• Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Christian

Schulte• Doctoral Programme Chairs– Christopher Jefferson– Guido Tack

• Sponsorship Chair: Ian Miguel• Conference Photographer: Helmut Simonis

The Program Committees

• 48 PC members for the Research and Application Tracks, and 152 additional reviewers

• Secret agents for last minute reviews and arbitration

• Mentors: Peter Stuckey, Ian Gent and Dave Cohen

• Pedro Meseguer and Barry O’Sullivan

YOU, the authors!!!!