March 27 - April 4 2004, Barcelona, Spain
at the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS)
Preliminary Announcement
The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in the 1990s. Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and specify problems with uncertain, incomplete information and to solve combinatorial problems, as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, transportation, resource allocation, layout, design, and analysis. Constraint-based programming languages enjoy elegant theoretical properties, conceptual simplicity, and practical success.
The aim of the workshop is to provide opportunity for interactions with the other ETAPS'04 events and to be a major meeting point in the research area inbetween the Constraint Programming conferences, which are held each autumn.
The workshop will consist of sessions with invited talks that summarize the main challenges and/or application potential for the community, and sessions with short presentations describing ongoing work.
Taking inspiration from the CP 02 workshop CFV, we will have a special track dedicated to "formal verification". In recent years there has been an increasing interest for the application of constraint programming and constraint solving technology to the formal verification of hardware and software systems. Constraint solvers for Boolean (SAT) and arithmetic domains (Presburger, polyhedra, linear constraints) are widely used as subprocedures of symbolic model checkers (e.g. nuSMV) and of model checkers for hybrid and real time systems (e.g. HyTech, Uppaal). Constraint solving is also used for computing static analysis of programs with numerical data variables and concurrent systems (e.g. via the Structural Theory of Petri Nets).
The aim of this special track is to bring together researchers working in constraints and verification and to investigate the theoretical foundations, new applications, and future developments in this area.
To submit, send an email by clicking here, containing four consecutive ASCII lines with title, author(s), email(s) and WWW link directly to compressed postscript file (5-15 pages). Accepted papers will be available electronically from this web-page and may be published in hard-copy proceedings (available at the workshop).
Giorgio Delzanno, DISI - University of Genova
Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm
Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt
Joao Marques-Silva, Technical University of Lisbon, IST/INESC-ID/CEL
Andreas Podelski, MPI - Saarbruecken
Peter Stuckey, University of Melbourne