Doctoral Program
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Here is the preliminary program for Sunday and Monday.
The entire doctoral program proceedings (20 MB) can be downloaded (there is also a 2.5MB rar version).
Call for Applications to the Doctoral Program
CP 2008 invites Ph.D. students to apply for the Doctoral Program, a forum held during the CP conference which provides an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to achieve visibility and discuss their research interests and career objectives with each other and established researchers in Constraint Programming and its related fields. After successful Doctoral Programs in previous years, it is being run again this year for the eighth time.
The aims of the Doctoral Program are the following:
- to provide a forum for Ph.D. students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;
- to promote contacts among Ph.D. students and senior researchers working in the same area;
- to exchange research experience;
- to support Ph.D. students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers, and
- to financially support attendance at CP.
The program will consist of students' presentations and/or posters and tutorials given by senior researchers in the field. In addition, each student will be matched to a mentor who is a senior researcher with similar research interests and who can advise the student on his/her research progress.
Participation and Financial Support Rules
- Applicants will be selected to participate in the Doctoral Program based on the quality of their submissions;
- selected applicants who have never attended CP Doctoral Programs will be given higher priority for financial support;
- participants who have already attended past CP Doctoral Programs will be given financial support if funding is available. In this case, priority is given to students who received less support from the DP in previous years.
Financial support consists of free conference registration and accommodation. Note that only the students who applied and are accepted for participation in the Doctoral Program can receive financial support.
Paper Availability
Student papers will be available during the conference and on the Conference/Doctoral Program websites.
Submission
We encourage submissions from Ph.D. students at any level and from any topic area and methodology within Constraint Programming and its related fields. On the basis of the submissions, the Organising Committee will select a group of students that will be invited to present their work during the Doctoral Program, either as a presentation or a poster. We expect a commitment from all participating students to attend the entire Doctoral Program.
The paper should be a maximum of 6 pages in length and should follow the usual Springer LNCS style format. Please submit using the submission webpage.
Note that the page limit is strict and longer papers will not be reviewed. The paper should be sent either as a PostScript or as a PDF file. It should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that is part of the doctoral work of the student(s). The authors should be formatted as:
| Student(s): | … |
| Supervisor(s): | … |
Students who wish to participate in the Doctoral Program and have a full paper describing their work accepted to the technical program of CP 2008, do not have to submit a short version of their paper to the Doctoral Program. They need only send an email to both Doctoral Program Chairs explaining that they wish to participate in the Doctoral Program and have an accepted paper in the main program of CP 2008 describing their work. The title, author list and abstract of the paper should also be included. Any such student will automatically be accepted to participate in the Doctoral Program but the student will present the work only in the technical program sessions and not during the Doctoral Program. Financial support rules apply as highlighted above. The papers of the students accepted for participation to the Doctoral Program will be made available on the web.
In addition, the dissertation advisor of any student wishing to participate in the Doctoral Program should send a letter of recommendation by e-mail to both Doctoral Program Chairs. The letter should:
- confirm that the applicant is a Ph.D. student working in Constraint Programming or its related fields;
- indicate whether the student has already benefitted and received financial support from the past CP Doctoral Programs, and if yes how many times;
- indicate whether the student has a full paper accepted to CP 2008 describing her/his work;
- include the expected date for thesis submission;
- and the motivation/expected benefit for the student to attend the Doctoral Program.
This letter can be sent in as either a text or a PostScript or a PDF file.
Dates
| Submission of application | 9 June 2008 |
| Acceptance notification | 6 July 2008 |
| Final versions | 15 July 2008 |
| Doctoral Program | 14/15 September 2008 |
Organisation
Doctoral Program Chairs:
| Kostas Stergiou | Roland Yap |
| ICSD | School of Computing |
| University of the Aegean, Greece | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| konsterg@aegean.gr | ryap@comp.nus.edu.sg |
Program Committee
| Roman Bartak, Charles University, Czech Republic |
| Sebastian Brand, NICTA and University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Mats Carlsson, SICS, Sweden |
| Hubie Chen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain |
| Brahim Hnich, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey |
| Ulrich Junker, ILOG, France |
| Christophe Lecoutre, CRIL-CRNS, Universite d'Artois, France |
| Ian Miguel, University of St Andrews, UK |
| Claude-Guy Quimper, University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Brent Venable, University of Padova, Italy |
| Neil Yorke Smith, SRI International, USA |
| Yuanlin Zhang, Texas Tech University, USA |