Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems
   
 This workshop will address recent progress in techniques
 for solving constraint satisfaction problems where variables,
 constraints, optimization criteria or any combination of
 these are distributed among a set of agents. Recent years
 have seen increasing interest in this topic, and algorithms
 have recently become efficient enough so that practical applications
 can be considered. 
 
 With respect to other workshops, this workshop will place
 a particular emphasis on applications. We particularly
 welcome papers that discuss the performance and adequacy
 of algorithms on real and foreseen applications. We also
 solicit papers that propose good benchmark
 problems for distributed constraint satisfaction.

 Organizing Committee:
 
 Christian Bessiere, LIRMM, France
 Boi Faltings (Chair), EPFL, Switzerland
 Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft Research, UK
 Amnon Meisels, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
 Pedro Meseguer, IIIA, Spain
 Marius Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
 Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University, Japan
 
 Paper Submission Guidelines
 
 Papers should be formatted in the same format as the ECAI
 conference, but with a page limit of 7 rather than 5 pages.
 A description of the style can be found here.
 
 
 Important Dates:
 
 Paper Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2006
 Acceptance Notification:   May 10th, 2006
 Final version due on:      May 24th, 2006
 Workshop:                  August 28th, 2006
 
 
 Contact details of chair:
 
 Boi Faltings
 LIA(I&C)
 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
 Station 14
 IN-Ecublens
 1015 Lausanne
 Switzerland
 FAX: +41-21-693-5225
 Tel: +41-21-693-2738
 boi.faltings@epfl.ch