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ICS members have issued the following Calls for Papers:
CP-AI-OR'2008 The 5th international conference on Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems Long paper deadline: December 17, 2007 Short paper deadline: February 15, 2008 See http://contraintes.inria.fr/CPAIOR08/ ICS involvement: John Chinneck, John Hooker, Robin Lougee-Heimer, Laurent Michel, Gilles Pesant, Michael Trick, Pascal Van Hentenryck.
INFORMS Southwest Regional Conference, April 18-19, 2008 at Texas A&M University, Texas Requested immediately: information on ICS members who will be attending so their papers can be organized into an ICS track. Contact ICS Track organizer Dick Barr (barr@engr.smu.edu). See http://www.informs.org/site/RC_TexasAM/ Deadline: January 25,2008. ICS involvement: Dick Barr and any ICS member willing to wear a ten-gallon hat and spurs.
Nectar Track AAAI'08 Pascal Van Hentenryck is on the program committee of the Nectar Track of AAAI'2008. The track is composed of outstanding papers already published in other conferences to increase their visibility and optimization papers are most welcome. See www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2008/aaai08nectar.php Deadline: February 19, 2008 ICS involvement: Pascal Van Hentenryck
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 12-15, 2008. Requested immediately: proposals for ICS-sponsored sessions, speakers, "mini-tracks", co-sponsored sessions. Contact ICS Track organizer Robin Lougee-Heimer robinlh@us.ibm.com Deadline for abstract submission: May 15, 2008 See http://meetings.informs.org/DC08/ ICS Involvement: Everybody! That means you!