Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6308 Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany David Cohen (Ed.) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2010 16th International Conference, CP 2010 St.Andrews, Scotland, September 6-10, 2010 Proceedings 1 3 Volume Editor David Cohen Department of Computer Science Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX United Kingdom E-mail: d.cohen@rhul.ac.uk Library of Congress Control Number: 2010933521 CR Subject Classification (1998): F.4.1, F.2, F.3, G.2, F.1, E.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 2 – Programming and Software Engineering ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13 0302-9743 3-642-15395-X Springer Berlin Heidelberg NewYork 978-3-642-15395-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg NewYork This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper 06/3180 Preface The 16th annual International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2010) was held in St. Andrews, Scotland, during September 6–10, 2010. We would like to thank our sponsors for their generous support of this event. This conference is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, applications, environments, languages, models and systems. We received a wide variety of submissions, each of which was reviewed by at least three referees. Referees were chosen for each submission by an initial bidding process where Program Committee members chose papers from their area of interest. The range of expertise represented by the large Program Com-mittee meant that almost all submissions were reviewed by subject experts on the Program Committee, or by colleagues chosen by members of the Program Committee for their particular expertise. Papers were solicited either as long (15 page), or short (8 page) submissions. Short-paper submissions were refereed to exactly the same high standards as long-paper submissions but naturally were expected to contain a smaller quantity of new material. Thus there is no distinc-tion in these proceedings between short and long papers. I used the excellent EasyChair conference management system to support this process of reviewing, and for the collation and organization of these proceedings. Submissions were made either to the applications track or to the research track. There were 101 (23 short) research track submissions of which 36 (8 short) were accepted, which is a 36% (35% of short) acceptance rate. Applications track submissions received special consideration and the acceptance rate was signifi-cantly higher than for the research track. There were 21 (2 short) applications track submissions of which 11 (1 short) were accepted for a 52% (50% of short) acceptance rate. There were three invited talks from distinguished scientists: Robert Nieuwen-huis, Edward Tsang and Moshe Vardi. These proceedings include abstracts of each of their presentations. Details of the wide variety of workshops and the four tutorials that took place as part of the conference are also included. I would like to thank the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) for inviting me to be Program Chair. It has been a rewarding experience, not only because of the high quality of the papers submitted, but also for the help so readily given to me by friends and colleagues around the world. I want to thank all of the authors for submitting such interesting papers. It is their hard work that makes the conference so interesting, but the high quality of the submissions also makes the decision process challenging. I would also like to thank the members of the Program Committee for agreeing to help in the VI Preface first place, and for the excellent standard of reviewing. My particular thanks go to those people who provided fourth reviews when decisions were most difficult. Several people deserve special mention. Karen Petrie, who, as Conference Chair, saved my life on many occasions. Ian Gent, who, as the Program Chair for CP 2009, was a source of invaluable information, warnings and good ad-vice. Barry O’Sullivan for his speedy replies to questions, and general support. Peter Stuckey, who was the Applications Track Chair, Pedro Meseguer for the workshop organization, Thomas Schiex for managing the tutorials and Peter Nightingale and Standa Zivny for running the doctoral program. The local Organizing Committee always put in a great deal of work, often unthanked, to make a conference like this successful. Andrea Rendl as Publicity Chair and Neil Moore who ran the website helped me a lot during the build up to CP 2010. September 2010 David Cohen ... - tailieumienphi.vn