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The integration of techniques from AI and OR has shown in the past years how
it improves algorithm quality for tackling complex and large scale
combinatorial problems, especially in terms of efficiency, scaleability and
optimality. The value of this integration has been shown in applications
such as hoist scheduling, rostering, dynamic scheduling and vehicle routing.
At the programming/modelling level, most constraint languages embed OR
techniques to reason about collections of constraints, so-called global
constraints. A few also provide support for hybridization allowing the
programmer to build new integrated algorithms. The resulting multi-paradigm
programming framework combines the flexibility and modelling facilities of
constraint programming with the special purpose and efficient methods from
Operations Research.
The CP-AI-OR workshop is becoming a major forum for exchanging ideas and
methodologies from both fields, as demonstrated by its success in Ferrara in
1999, in Paderborn in 2000, and in Ashford in 2001. Its aim is to bring
together interested researchers from AI and OR, and to give them the
opportunity to show how the integration of techniques from AI and OR can
lead to interesting results on large scale and complex problems. We
explicitly welcome new ideas and methods for integrating OR and AI
techniques that have arisen from real-world applications.
The workshop is organized by the Ecole des Mines de Nantes and will take
place in Le Croisic, a typical village of Brittany the western part of
France, close to Nantes.