The Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning

DCR 2004

Tenth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
(CP 2004)

Toronto, Canada

Monday, Sept 27, 2004

Location: Simcoe Room
Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel

Workshop Schedule:

9:00 – Workshop begins.

9:00 – 9:10 Opening Remarks and Introductions

9:10 – 9:35 DCOP Games for Multi-agent Coordination (R. Maheswaran, J. Pearce, M. Tambe )

9:35 – 10:00 A Distributed, Complete Method for Multi-agent Constraint Optimization (A. Petcu, B. Faltings)

10:00 - 10:25 Preprocessing Techniques for Distributed Constraint Optimization (S. Ali, S. Koenig, M. Tambe)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:25 Dynamic Distributed Backjumping (V.Ngyuyen, D. Sam-Haroud, B. Faltings)

11:25 – 11:50 Incremental Constraint Propagation for Interleaved Distributed Backtracking (G. Ringwelski)

11:50 – 12:15 Synchronous, Asynchronous and Hybrid algorithms for DisCSP (I. Brito, P. Meseguer)

12:15 – 12:25 Short Paper: E-Privacy Requirements for Distributed E-Services (S. Ghernaouti-Helie, M. Sfaxi)

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch Break  (Group Lunch, email 'pmodi@cs.cmu.edu' for reservation)

2:00 – 2:25 The DDAC4 Algorithm for Arc-Consistency Enforcement in Dynamic and Distributed CSP (G. Ringwelski)

2:25 – 2:50 Using Additional Information in DisCSPs Search (A. Meisels, O. Lavee)

2:50 – 3:15 Multiagent Meeting Scheduling with Rescheduling (J. Modi, M. Veloso)

3:15 – 3:25 Discussion of plans for DCR 2005

3:30 – 4:00 Coffee break

4:00 – 5:00 Invited Speaker: Mark S. Fox, University of Toronto

5:00 – 5:30 Evaluation Metrics for Distributed Constraint Reasoning – Panel and Group Discussion

                    Panelists: Amnon Meisels, Pedro Meseguer