===================== CP 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS ===========================

Thirtieth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming, CP 2024 (https://cp2024.a4cp.org)

September 2-6, 2024, Girona, Spain

The CP conference is the premier international event for presenting research in
all aspects of computing with constraints, including, but not restricted to:
theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications.
CP 2024 will be the 30th edition of the CP conference and will be held in the
historic city of Girona on the University of Girona campus, September 2-6, 2024.

The conference welcomes submissions that advance the state of the art of
fundamental constraint-based technologies, as well as those that seek
connections with other domains: for example, operations research,
satisfiability, computational biology, configuration and design, computer music,
entertainment, sport, cybersecurity, and AI in its broader context.

--- Tracks

Besides the main technical track, CP 2024 especially encourages submission to
three additional specialized tracks. A paper may only be submitted to either the
main technical track or at most one specialized track. Special track papers will
undergo the same review and publication process as that of the main technical
track.

* Applications
* CP and Machine Learning
* CP and Operations Research

--- Important Dates

* Abstract registration: 18/04
* Paper submission: 23/04
* Author rebuttal: 29/05-02/06
* Final notification: 20/06
* Camera Ready: 01/07
* Conference: September 2-6, 2024

Dates should be considered as Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

--- Submission Instructions

The submission Web page for CP 2024 is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cp2024

Papers should be submitted in the form of a PDF file following LIPIcs guidelines
(https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author). Authors should
carefully follow the formatting instructions and keep to the style defined by
LIPIcs. Papers should also be readable in black and white.

To open the conference more widely, two types of submissions will be accepted:

* Full papers, that can use up to 15 pages (references excluded and appendices
excluded).

* Short papers, that can use a maximum of 8 pages (references and appendices
excluded).

Short papers cover early results or results that can be adequately reported in
the allocated 8 pages. They must nonetheless respect the quality expectations of
the conference. Both full and short papers should attract a wide audience and
will be allocated time for presentation during the conference.

Appendices may be included and will not contribute towards the total page count,
although the program chair reserves the right to limit the number of pages in
extreme cases. Supplemental material (for example, experimental results or code)
may be referenced, but only if this can be done in a manner which would not
reveal the authors' identities (see below on the double-blind review process).
Papers should be self-contained and be comprehensible without reference to
either appendices or supplemental material. Authors should not place elements
essential to their paper in either appendices or supplemental material and
indeed it will be left to the discretion of each reviewer whether they refer to
this material or not.

Submissions exceeding the page limits or improperly formatted will be rejected
without review.

To facilitate reviewing management, authors who intend to submit a paper to CP
2024 should submit an abstract of up to 150 words, summarizing the contribution
of the paper, by the 18th of April, 2024. The paper submission must be completed
by the 23rd of April, 2024.

All papers will go through a double-blind reviewing process, meaning that
authors and reviewers are mutually anonymous. For this reason, submitted papers
should not contain author names, affiliations, or links to identifying websites.
References to the authors' own papers should be cited in such a way so as to
avoid revealing the authorship of the paper.

A given paper must be submitted to one track only. When necessary, the Program
Chair may move a submission to a more suitable track.

Submitted papers must not appear in, be accepted for, or be under review for a
journal or another peer-reviewed conference with archived conference
proceedings. Submissions that have appeared at workshops or other meetings and
have not been formally published or have appeared only in highly shortened form
(e.g., abstracts) can be submitted as papers.

--- Proceedings

Accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by LIPIcs. The
proceedings will be available at the time of the conference.

--- Other Information

Questions about the paper submission process may be addressed to the Program
Chair, Paul Shaw (cp2024@easychair.org).