******************************************************************** Eighth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning DCR-2007 http://liawww.epfl.ch/Events/IJCAI07_DCR/ ******************************************************************** In Conjunction with IJCAI'07 Hyderabad, India, January 8th, 2007 http://www.ijcai-07.org/ ******************************************************************** Call for Papers ******************************************************************** Workshop Description: Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) problems arise when pieces of information about variables, constraints or both are relevant to independent but communicating agents. They provide a promising framework to deal with the increasingly diverse range of distributed real world problems emerging from the evolution of computation and communication technologies. The new challenges posed by solving Distributed Constraint Reasoning Problems include dealing with resource restrictions (such as limits on time and communication), privacy requirements, exploiting opportunities for cooperation, and designing conflict resolution strategies. The workshop addresses modeling, formulation and solution of Distributed Constraint Reasoning problems, including both Distributed Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems. The workshop encourages submissions on all topics related to Distributed Constraint Reasoning, including (but not limited to) the following: * unified frameworks for distributed constraint reasoning * algorithms for solving distributed constraint reasoning problems * privacy issues in distributed constraint reasoning * problem solving in systems with self-interested agents * distributed constraint propagation and consistency * over-constrained problems * applications of distributed constraint reasoning * modeling of distributed constraint reasoning problems * extensions of the distributed constraint reasoning paradigm/framework Workshop Motivation: The goal of the DCR workshop series is to bring together researchers from the many different areas that are relevant to distributed constraint reasoning so that commonalities and relationships can be discovered and understanding improved. DCR is an inter-disciplinary research area involving the Constraint Programming, Multiagent Systems and AI communities. As such, this workshop has historically rotated its location between the three major conferences in each of these areas: CP (2000, 2004), IJCAI (2001, 2003, 2005) and AAMAS (2002,2006). In 2007, DCR will again be held at IJCAI and we invite all members of the broad AI community to participate. Submission Guidelines: Participants should submit a paper (maximum 15 pages), describing their work on one or more of the topics relevant to the workshop. Submissions must all be electronic. Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. Other participants may submit a shorter paper (maximum 5 pages) presenting a research statement or perspective on topics relevant to the workshop. All submissions should include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing address, phone number and email address. Authors are requested to prepare their papers by following the Springer instructions found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html . The submissions should be uploaded electronically *in PDF format* at http://liawww.epfl.ch/Events/IJCAI07_DCR/submissions/ . The deadline for receipt of submissions is September 25, 2006. Papers received after this date may not be reviewed. Questions about submissions may be directed to Adrian Petcu (adrian.petcu@epfl.ch). We welcome the submission of papers rejected from the IJCAI-2007 technical program. Do not forget to mention your contact address and e-mail or telephone (e.g. in a footnote on the title page). Important Dates and Deadlines * Deadline for the submission of full papers (up to 15 pages): September 25, 2006 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: October 23, 2006 * Deadline for receiving of camera-ready papers: November 10th, 2006 * Workshop date: Janyary 8th, 2007 Workshop chair Adrian Petcu Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne EPFL / IC / IIF / LIA INR240 (Batiment IN), Station 14 CH - 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland) adrian.petcu@epfl.ch phone: (+41 21) 693-6711 fax: (+41 21) 693-5225 (previously involved in organizing CSCLP'04 and DisCSP06) Other organizing committee members: Christian Bessiere LIRMM-CNRS bessiere@lirmm.fr Boi Faltings Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne boi.faltings@epfl.ch Youssef Hamadi Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK youssefh@microsoft.com Katsutoshi Hirayama Kobe University hirayama@maritime.kobe-u.ac.jp Amnon Meisels Ben-Gurion University am@cs.bgu.ac.il Pedro Meseguer Institut d'Investigaci en Intelligncia Artificial (IIIA) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (CSIC) pedro@iiia.csic.es Pragnesh Jay Modi Drexel University pmodi@cs.drexel.edu Marius Silaghi Florida Institute of Technology msilaghi@fit.edu Milind Tambe University of Southern California Milind Tambe Makoto Yokoo Kyushu University yokoo@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp Weixiong Zhang Washington University zhang@cs.wustl.edu