First Workshop on Constraint Reasoning and Graphical Structures, St Andrews, United Kingdom
The primary focus of the event will be on the use of graphical approaches in enabling structural properties of constraint models used in a wide variety of tasks. These can include constraint propagation, solution counting, reasoning with soft constraints and preferences, inference under uncertainty, and configuration.
Graphical structures have helped solve a number of computationally challenging problems. This is especially true for problems related to decision support. For example, probabilistic reasoning or configuration have been addressed by compiling the models into computationally efficient graphical representations.
The same graphical structures are increasingly used in a classical constraint programming context: to improve the efficiency of search for a feasible solution or finding an optimal solution.
The workshop will take place the same time as the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming.For further information, please visit:
http://www.4c.ucc.ie/cp-graphical-ws-2010/(opens in new window)