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OPEN MEETING
on a
FORMAL ORGANIZATION
for the
CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING COMMUNITY
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Nov. 26, 2001
7pm
Coral Beach Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus
(during CP 2001)
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The Constraint Programming (CP) community is a stable
and very active group of researchers, developers,
students, and professors, who carry on research
activity over the many fields which are involved in
the constraint programming area.
Until now, this group of people and research activities
has evolved in a very informal and self-organizing way, with
the help of the CP Organizing Committee for issues related to
the annual international conference.
Since the community is reasonably strong and increasing
in size, we think that it is time to think about a move
towards a more formal organization, which can take care
of both the administrative, economic, and research
issues involved in all the events related to community,
and also of the dissemination and promotion of the CP
results within and outside the CP community.
This open meeting is the opportunity to discuss together
this very important issue. We will outline the main options
that have been considered until now, pointing out their
pros and cons, and everybody will have the chance to
give feedback and to contribute to the discussion.
Note that this meeting is not intended to end with a decision,
but with a better understanding of the feelings of the
community members about the different options.
This is essential if we want to move to a formal
organization which will provide the CP community
with the tools it desires to grow even stronger and larger,
and have a greater impact in other areas as well.
We hope to see many of you in Cyprus at this meeting,
and we look forward to a fruitful discussion about this issues.
We also welcome e-mail opinions and/or questions about
the status of the discussion from those of you who will
not be able to come to the meeting: just send your messages to
Francesca Rossi (frossi@math.unipd.it).
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The CP OC subcommittee on the CP formal organization
Francesca Rossi (chair)
Alan Borning
Alex Brodsky
Eugene Freuder (chair of the CP OC)
Michael Maher
Toby Walsh
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