18th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision
Making CoProD'2026,
March 13, 2026, El Paso, Texas, USA
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, 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.
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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 are expected in the form of extended abstracts of at
least 2 pages and ideally no more than 5 pages (a few more pages is
OK), 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.
Submissions have to be sent in pdf format and LaTeX format
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 December 24, 2025 (Let us know if
you need a few more days). Authors of accepted abstracts are
expected to participate and present their work at the workshop.
Important dates
December 24, 2025: paper submission
January 17, 2026: notification of acceptance
February 13, 2026: camera-ready copy of abstracts due
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