Call for Papers

   	     	   BPPC'12

Fourth International Workshop on Bin Packing and Placement Constraints

           May 29th 2012, Nantes, France

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

associated to the 9th International Conference on the Integration of Artificial
Intelligence and Operations Research techniques in Constraint Programming 
CPAIOR 2012 http://www.emn.fr/z-info/cpaior-2012/

____ 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
       * System 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: March 31 2012
Notification to Authors: April 18, 2012
Camera-ready due: May 7, 2012
Workshop: May 29th, 2012, 

____ Submission ____

  Submission site:
  
  http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bppc12


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).

By submitting a paper to BPPC'12, the
authors commit that, if the paper is accepted, at least one
author will present the paper at the workshop.


____ 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)
  Helmut Simonis (4C, Cork, Ireland)