******************************************************************************** **** Ninth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) **** ******************************************************************************** September 23, 2007 Held in conjunction with CP-07 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA http://teamcore.usc.edu/DCR ******************************************************************************** Call for Papers ******************************************************************************** Workshop Description: Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) problems arise when pieces of information about variables, constraints or both are relevant to independent but communicating agents. They provide a promising framework to deal with the increasingly diverse range of distributed real-world problems emerging from the evolution of computation and communication technologies. The new challenges posed by solving Distributed Constraint Reasoning Problems include dealing with resource restrictions (such as limits on time and communication), privacy requirements, exploiting opportunities for cooperation, and designing conflict resolution strategies. The workshop addresses modeling, formulation and solution of Distributed Constraint Reasoning problems, including both Distributed Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems. The workshop encourages submissions on all topics related to Distributed Constraint Reasoning, including (but not limited to) the following: * unified frameworks for distributed constraint reasoning * algorithms for solving distributed constraint reasoning problems * theoretical results about distributed constraint reasoning problems * privacy issues in distributed constraint reasoning * problem solving in systems with self-interested agents * distributed constraint propagation and consistency * over-constrained problems * applications of distributed constraint reasoning * modeling of distributed constraint reasoning problems * extensions of the distributed constraint reasoning paradigm/framework Workshop Motivation: The goal of the DCR workshop series is to bring together researchers from the many different areas that are relevant to distributed constraint reasoning so that commonalities and relationships can be discovered and understanding improved. DCR is an inter-disciplinary research area involving the Constraint Programming, Multiagent Systems and AI communities. As such, this workshop has historically rotated its location between the three major conferences in each of these areas: CP (in 2000 and 2004), IJCAI (in 2001, 2003, 2005, and January of 2007) and AAMAS (in 2002 and 2006). In September of 2007, DCR will again be held at CP and we invite all members of the CP community to participate. Workshop Format: At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the half-day workshop. The workshop will emphasize group discussion so presentations will be balanced with discussion time. Proposals for panels / discussion groups during the workshop are welcome. Submission Guidelines: Participants should submit a paper (maximum 15 pages), describing their work on one or more of the topics relevant to the workshop. Other participants may submit a shorter paper (maximum 5 pages) presenting a research statement or perspective on topics relevant to the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. Authors are requested to prepare their papers by following the LNCS Springer instructions found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All submissions and questions should be emailed to Jonathan Pearce at jppearce@usc.edu. Submissions should include the name(s), affiliations, and email addresses of all authors in the body of the email. We welcome the submission of papers rejected from the CP-2007 technical program. The deadline for receipt of submissions is July 12, 2007. Papers received after this date may not be reviewed. Important Dates and Deadlines: * Submission Deadline: July 12, 2007 * Notification: August 9, 2007 * Camera-Ready Deadline: August 16, 2007 * Workshop Date: September 23, 2007 Contact: Jonathan P. Pearce (workshop chair) jppearce@usc.edu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jppearce 3737 Watt Way, PHE-210 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Organizing Committee: Christian Bessiere LIRMM-CNRS bessiere@lirmm.fr Boi Faltings Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne boi.faltings@epfl.ch Youssef Hamadi Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK youssefh@microsoft.com Katsutoshi Hirayama Kobe University hirayama@maritime.kobe-u.ac.jp Amnon Meisels Ben-Gurion University am@cs.bgu.ac.il Pedro Meseguer Institut d'Investigaci en Intelligencia Artificial (IIIA) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) pedro@iiia.csic.es Jonathan P. Pearce University of Southern California jppearce@usc.edu Adrian Petcu Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne adrian.petcu@epfl.ch Marius Silaghi Florida Institute of Technology msilaghi@fit.edu Milind Tambe University of Southern California tambe@usc.edu Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University yokoo@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp