Monday, June 15, 2015

[DMANET] Final Call for Papers: Doctoral Program at CP 2015 - Deadline Extended

Deadline extension to Wednesday 17 June 2015

***** Call for Papers *****

As part of the 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2015), we are inviting PhD and MSc students to apply for the Doctoral Programme (DP). The DP is an opportunity for students to meet each other as well as researchers and practitioners in the field. The spirit of the DP is that every interested student whose work is within the scope of the conference should be admitted.

Participation in the DP will involve:

- Training to the reviewing process.
- Presentation of the student work via both talk and poster.
- Discussions with a mentor with similar research interests.

***** Financial Support *****

There are funds available to support some of the students participating in the DP. The financial support usually only covers conference registration, and will be assigned with regard to mainly the financial need of a student, as indicated in a request by an advisor, and then by the quality of the submitted paper, as measured by the review process of the DP. A request for financial support should be sent by Monday 15 June 2015 to dpcp2015@gmail.com by an advisor, detailing:

- the advisor's support of the student's application; this should include a confirmation that the DP submission or a paper accepted at CP 2015 is primarily the student's work;
- which years the student has previously been to the DP and/or received financial support;
the funding available for the student's travel, accommodation, and registration, and the reason for requesting financial support.

It is the responsibility of the student to make sure that the advisor's request is submitted by the deadline.
Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:
Wednesday 17 June 2015

Financial support request deadline:
Wednesday 17 June 2015

Notification:
Monday 6 July 2015

Camera-ready version deadline:
Monday 3 August 2015

Doctoral Programme:
Monday 31 August 2015

***** Eligibility *****

The DP is open to all PhD and outstanding MSc students involved in Constraint Programming or related fields at any level. The submitted paper should contain work that is primarily the work of the student. It can either be completed or work in progress. It can also be a summary of a formally published recent paper on the student's work.
Submission Details

Applicants are required to submit a short paper (from 4 to 8 pages, excluding references) in the Springer LNCS style, and the author list should specify who is the student and who are the advisors and other co-authors. Submissions are required to be in PDF format.

All proposals should be submitted online through EasyChair- by selecting 'New Submission' at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpdp15

Students with full or short papers accepted at the CP 2015 conference, including technical track, application track, and published-journal-paper track papers, who wish to participate in the DP do not need to submit a separate paper for the DP. Instead, such students should email the DP chairs at dpcp2015@gmail.com expressing their interest. This email should also include the paper title, abstract, author list (formatted as specified above), and the identifier that the accepted paper was given by EasyChair.
Training to the Reviewing Process

This year, the students submitting papers to the DP will participate in a training to the reviewing process. Each of the students will be assigned a submitted paper to review. The process will follow the same rules as conferences, but the reviews submitted by the students will be independent from the DP reviews received from other reviewers and will have no impact on the final acceptance or financial support decision.

***** Doctoral Programme Chairs *****

David Bergman, School of Business, University of Connecticut, USA
dpcp2015@gmail.com
Marie Pelleau, Université de Montréal, Canada
dpcp2015@gmail.com

***** Invited Speakers *****

We are delighted to announce the speakers at the Doctoral Programme:
Eugene Freuder, National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC), Ireland
Charlotte Truchet, Université de Nantes, France

***** Program Committee *****

Alessio Bonfietti, University of Bologna, Italy
Andre Cire, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Carleton Coffrin, NICTA, Australia
Jessica Davies, IST Austria, Austria
Tias Guns, KU Leuven, Belgium
Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Serdar Kadioglu, Oracle America In, United States
George Katsirelos, MIAT, INRA, France
Lars Kotthoff, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jean-Marie Lagniez, CRIL, France
Michele Lombardi, University of Bologna, Italy
Yuri Malitsky, IBM Research, United States
Christopher Mears, Monash University, Australia
Justyna Petke, University College London, United Kingdom
Charles Prud'homme, EMN INRIA TASC, France
Claude-Guy Quimper, Université de Laval, Canada
Andrea Rendl, NICTA and Monash University, Australia
Guido Tack, Monash University, Australia
Kevin Tierney, University of Paderborn, Germany
Tommaso Urli, NICTA, Australia
Nadarajen Veerapen, University of Stirling, United Kingdom

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