Call for Papers

			       BPPC'09

Second International Workshop on Bin Packing and Placement Constraints

	 September 20, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal

      http://contraintes.inria.fr/BPPC/

associated to the 15th International Conference on 
Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming CP'09
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/conferences/cp2009/

____ Scope ____

  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.

____ Important Dates ____


  Submission Deadline:      July 10, 200
  Notification to Authors:  July 27, 2009
  Camera-ready due:         August 15, 2009
  Workshop:                 September 20, 2009.


____ Submission ____

  Submission site:
  
  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bppc09


 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. 


____ Program Committee ____

  Nicolas Beldiceanu (EMN, France)
  Mats Carlsson (SICS, Sweden)
  François Clautiaux (Univ. Lille, France)
  François Fages (INRIA, France)
  Andrea Lodi (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
  Silvano Martello (Univ. Bologna, Italy)
  Michael Moffitt (IBM Austin, USA)