Second International Workshop on Bin Packing and Placement Constraints BPPC'09

associated to the 15th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming CP 2009


20th September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal


Workshop Organisers :

Nicolas Beldiceanu (EMN, France)
Mats Carlsson (SICS, Sweden)
François Fages (INRIA, France)


Additional Program Committee Members:

François Clautiaux (Univ. Lille, France)
Andrea Lodi (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
Silvano Martello (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
Michael Moffitt (IBM Austin, USA)



Program

13.45-14.15     Stephane Grandcolas and Cedric Pinto.
A new representation of interval graphs for higher-dimensional orthogonal packing 

14.15-14.45     Julien Dupuis, Pierre Schaus and Yves Deville.
Failure detection for the Bin-Packing Constraint

14.45-3.15     Mohamed Sbihi, Stéphane Zampelli, nicolas beldiceanu and Mats Carlsson.
Generalized k-Dimensional Distance Constraints with Application to Circle Packing

3.15-3.45 Coffee Break

3.45-4.15     François Clautiaux, Antoine Jouglet and Aziz Moukrim.
A constraint-programming approach for the guillotine-cutting problem 

4.15-4.45     Garcia Fernando, Delgado Miguel and Aranda Joaquin.
Pre-ordering input sequences of pieces for 2D Strip Packing Problem: An empirical study


Call for papers (txt)

 
Bin Packing and Placement problems are an old but still challenging topic that has been tackled with different approaches.

On the one hand, the aim of this workshop is to share recent progress made on pure problems by using any technique (or the mix) like Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Local Search, or Constraint Programming.

On the other hand, the aim is to present challenging problems formulated and/or solved by these methods, or challenging extensions that have a practical interest and for which pure methods do not directly work.

Submitted papers can be

     * Extended Abstracts of new results or
     * Abstract of ongoing works
     * Systems presentations (with demos at the workshop)
     * Summaries of already accepted or recently published results

on any topic concerning bin packing and placement constraints.

Submission style is the standard llncs style. Page limit is 6 pages (authors can refer to long papers but only short papers will be reviewed).

Submitting a paper to BPPC'09 engages the authors of the paper that at least one of them will present the paper at the workshop if the paper is accepted. All workshop participants will have to pay the CP registration fee in addition to the workshop fee.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: July 10, 2009, using http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bppc09
Notification to Authors: July 27, 2009
Camera-ready due: August 15, 2009



Previous workshop: BPPC'08

This workshop is sponsored by the European project

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Last update: September 7th 2009