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From: zsofi@cs.vu.nl (Zsofi Ruttkay)
Subject: ECAI96 ws on Non-Standard Constraint Processing
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                     | DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: |
                     |      13 JULY 1996          |
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                      ECAI'96 workshop nr. 27 on
                  
                  Non-Standard Constraint Processing

                            13 August, Budapest

                            FINAL PROGRAM


  8.30 -  9.00 Welcome, introduction

  9.00 - 10.30 3 long papers
     F. Jungen, W. Kowalczyk: Approximate Algorithms for 
     Generalised Maximum Utility Problems

     C. Chiu, J. Lee: Extending HCLP with Partially Ordered
     Hierarchies and Composite Constraints

     F. Rossi, A. Sperduti: Learning Solution Preferences in 
     Constraint Problems

10.30 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.00 2 long papers
     C. Le Pape: Constraint Propagation for Ordering, Abstraction 
     and Aggregation Relations

     C. Petrie, H. Jeon, M. Cutkosky: Combining Constraint 
     Propagation and Backtracking for Distributed Engineering

12.00 - 13.45 Lunch break

13.45 - 15.15 6 short papers

     W. Menzel: Constraint Satisfaction for Robust Parsing of Spoken
     Language

     W. Naanaa, S. Pimont: Alternative Handling and Constraint 
     Relaxation in Structured CSPs

     H. Meyer auf'm Hofe: Partial Satisfaction of Constraint Hierarchies 
     in Reactive and Interactive Configuration

     A. Wolf: Transforming and Simplifying Some Algebraic Constraint 
     Hierarchies

     J. van der Linden, K. Brownsey: Dynamic Meta Constraints


     G. Solotorevsky, S. Eyal Shimony, A. Meisels: CSPs with
     Counters: a Likelihood-Based Heuristic

15.15 - 15.45 Break

15.45 - 17.15 Panel

17.15 - 17.30 Closing, outlook

Selected papers are planned to be published in a workshop proceedings. 
The discussion after the presentations and during the panel will be 
recorded, with the aim of including an edited version of it in the 
proceedings. In order to have vivid and fruitful discussions, the papers,
statements of interests and panel topics will be available before the workshop,
please contact the URL http://yeats.ucc.ie/~walter/ECAI96w/announce.html.

Participants are welcome. You can register till 13 JULY by sending a one-
page statement of interest in non-standard constraint processing to both 
of the workshop co-organisers. 

Workshop Co-Organisers:

Walter Hower                            Zsofia Ruttkay

Dept. of Comp. Science                  Dept. of Math. and Comp. Science
University College Cork                 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
Western Rd                              De Boelelaan 1081a
Cork                                    NL-1081 HV Amsterdam
Republic of Ireland                     The Netherlands
phone: +353-21-90-3/084                 phone: +31-20-444 7776
fax:               /113                 fax  : +31-20-444 7653
email: walter@cs.ucc.ie                 email: zsofi@cs.vu.nl

-- 
dr. Zsofia Ruttkay
Dept. of Mathematics and Comp. Science,                  e-mail: zsofi@cs.vu.nl,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam                             fax:    31-20-444 7653
De Boelelaan 1081a,11081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands   phone:  31-20-444 7776 
