18th International Workshop on Constraint Programming
and Decision Making CoProD'2026,
March 13, 2026, El Paso, Texas,
USA
(remote participation is possible)
The workshop will be held right before the Joint NAFIPS
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing and
Explainable AI and 10th World Conference on Soft Computing NAFIPS
2026, El Paso, Texas, USA, March 14-16, 2026.
Description
Constraint programming techniques are important components of
intelligent systems. They constitute a declarative and efficient
methodology to represent and solve many practical problems. They
have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as
scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks
security, chemistry, and biology. Despite the proved usefulness of
these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life
applications. One reason is the perceived lack of effective
communication between constraint programming experts and domain
practitioners about constraints, in general, and their use in
decision making, in particular.
Objectives of CoProD:
- To present advances in constraint solving, optimization, and related topics;
- To develop a network of researchers interested in constraint
techniques, in particular researchers and practitioners that use
numeric and symbolic approaches (or a combination of them) to solve
constraint and optimization problems;
- To address the gap between the great capacity of these techniques and their limited use.
Who Should Participate:
- Participation is encouraged from people doing research in
the areas of decision making and constraint programming.
-
CoProD also aims at facilitating networking opportunities as well
as cross-fertilization between the approaches used in different
communities. Therefore, besides active researchers in decision
making and constraint programming techniques, we expect to have a
wide attendance and participation of domain scientists - whose
input is highly valued in this workshop.
- Submissions of
ideas are also encouraged.
Proceedings / Publication
Submissions should take 2-5 page (a few more pages is OK), if
possible, formatted using the Springer edited book format; see
style file svmult.cls
and an example of using this file (not related to CoProD): LaTeX
original and the
resulting pdf file. Accepted submissions of at least 4 pages
will be published by Springer, as part of the proceedings of the
NAFIPS 2026 conference.
Please send the source file(s) and the resulting pdf file to mceberio [at] utep [dot] edu
and vladik [at] utep [dot]
edu. A contact author should be specified in the submission
email. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2026 (Let us
know if you need a few more days). Authors of accepted submissions
are expected to participate and present their work at the workshop.
Important dates
February 15, 2026: deadline for submissions
February 22, 2026: notification of acceptance
March 1, 2026: deadline for final versions of accepted
submissions
March 13, 2026: workshop
Program
to be determined
Organizers:
Martine Ceberio and Vladik Kreinovich
Department of Computer
Science
The University of Texas at El Paso
500 West
University
El Paso, Texas 79968-0518, USA
mceberio [at]
utep [dot] edu, vladik [at] utep [dot] edu