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Homepage: http://www.practical-applications.co.uk/PACLP2000/index.html
Organizers: Carmen Gervet
Description:
Building on the success of PACLP99, held in London, UK, PACLP 2000 will showcase innovative business solutions that
Constraint technologies and Logic Programming can provide in key industrial and commercial areas such as Planning,
Scheduling, Transportation, Distribution, The Intelligent Internet and Expert Systems.
Of particular interest are papers that describe the general use of Constraint technologies and Logic Programming, rather than the traditional close up description of one application. For instance, this could be a survey on the specific usage of a technology in a business area or demographic part of the world.
Also included are streams to demonstrate and expand the practicality and effectiveness of recent lines of research such as integration of multiple solvers, generic problem modelling and tackling of ill-defined real-world constraint problems. The integration of solvers from different paradigms, such as constraint programming, mathematical programming, Operational Research techniques and stochastic techniques (Tabu Search, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing) is emerging as a practical means to tackle large scale combinatorial optimization problems effectively. Also most real-world problems are ill-defined in nature. Their solving is not just about computing an optimal solution but building an incremental and interactive decision support tool that identifies and resolves the ill-defined components.
Practical and effective solutions that illustrate the hybridization of techniques, the modelling and handling of uncertainty in real-world constraint problems are most welcome.
Date received: September 29, 1999
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