ACPSS 2017

Return from school!

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0200

Hello,

The presentations are now available online in the SPEAKERS or SCHEDULE tabs by clicking on the speaker/session vignette.

Here is a few statistics about the school. We were 65 participants from 14 different countries spread into four categories.

France	E.U.	Outside E.U.
44	16	5

Organizers	Speakers	Students	Academic
4	8	47	6

And, there was 7 girls.

Here is a picture showing how serious we were during the DIY sessions ;)

Prepare for school!

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:00:00 +0200

Helpful Reading

Constraint programming.
- Combinatorial Optimization using Constraint Programming (Pierre Flener)
- On-line guide to constraint programming (R. Barták)
- Constraint programming course (P. Prosser)
Linear programming (any good introduction).
Scheduling.
- Baptiste, Philippe, Claude Le Pape, and Wim Nuijten (2001). Constraint-Based Scheduling. Kluwer Academic Publishers (Google books preview).
- Vilím, Petr (2007). Global Constraints in Scheduling. PhD thesis. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, Department of Theoretical Computer Science, and Mathematical Logic.
- Jordan Demeulenaere, Renaud Hartert, Christophe Lecoutre, Guillaume Perez, Laurent Perron, Jean-Charles Régin et al. (2016). Compact-Table: Efficiently Filtering Table Constraints with Reversible Sparse Bit-Sets, Proceedings of CP 2016.

Required softwares

The following softwares are required for the ‘Do it Yourself’ sessions where you will learn how to build a Mini-CP solver.

Git
SBT or Maven
IntelliJ Idea, Eclipse, or Netbeans
- Git, SBT, or maven integration plugins

Miscellaneous resources

Sagemath, a free open-source mathematics software system used by D. Coudert
A python script used by E. Hebrard to prepare its talk

Transfer between Nice and Porquerolles

Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0200

Congratulations, you have chosen our awesome all inclusive package:

REACH the beautiful city of Nice, and then
MEET US at the train station or the airport on monday morning to travel by coach, and by ferry.

From Nice to Porquerolles on Monday, September 18

Departure from the bus stop “Thiers-Gambetta” at 10:00 AM (near the train station “Nice Ville”)
Departure from the bus station at the terminal 1 of Nice Côte d’Azur Airport at 10:45 AM.
Arrival at the ferry terminal La Tour Fondue around 1:00 PM.
Departure from the ferry terminal La Tour Fondue at 2:00 PM.

From Porquerolles to Nice on Friday, September 22

Departure from the ferry from Porquerolles at 1:30 PM.
Arrival at the Nice Côte d’Azur Airport before 5:00 PM.
Arrival at the train station “Nice Ville” before 5:30 PM.

Find your way to Porquerolles!

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0200

Travel options

Awesome all inclusive package (recommended)
1. REACH the beautiful city of Nice, and then
2. MEET US at the train station or the airport on monday morning to travel by coach, and by ferry.
Travel by your own means
1. REACH the ferry terminal La Tour Fondue and then
2. CROSS the sea

Porquerolles Informations

Porquerolles Touristic Informations: www.porquerolles.com
- Tél. : 04 94 58 33 76
- Fax : 04 94 58 36 39
Porquerolles national park: www.portcrosparcnational.fr

REACH Nice

Most of the times, plane is the best way to reach Nice.

By plane: Nice Côte d’Azur Airport

Nice Côte d’Azur Airport is an international airport. It is the third busiest airport in France and serves as a focus city for Air France and an operating base for easyJet.

www.nice.aeroport.fr

By train

www.voyages-sncf.com

REACH the ferry terminal La Tour Fondue

By plane: Toulon-Hyères Airport

Daily connection with Paris Orly airport. Then take a taxi or a bus (see below)

www.toulon-hyeres.aeroport.fr

By train

The nearest train station is Hyères, which is 15 minutes by car from the point of departure to the island. The closest main railway station is Toulon (9 TGV from Paris per day). Then take a taxi or a bus (see below)

www.voyages-sncf.com

By taxi

Taxi prices to La Tour Fondue (Giens) – ferry terminal:

From Toulon railway station 80 € for ~ 45 mn
From Hyères railway station 35 € for ~ 15 mn
From Toulon-Hyères airport 25 € for ~ 10 mn
Taxis Radio Hyèrois: Tel. +33 4 94 00 60 00
Radio-Taxi Toulon: Tel. +33 4 94 93 51 51

By bus

There are regular lines from Toulon’s or Hyères’ bus stations to La Tour Fondue.

From Hyères’ railway station take the bus 67 to ‘La Tour Fondue’ – Ferry Terminal
From Toulon’s railway station take the bus 103 or the train to Hyères’ railway station and then take the bus 67 to ‘La Tour Fondue’ – Ferry Terminal

www.reseaumistral.com

By car

From Paris, Motorway A7, then A8 towards Aix en Provence, Toulon and then follow the A570 as far as Hyères and D97 to La Tour Fondue (ferry’s terminal to Porquerolles). From Nice, take the Motorway A8 as far as Hyères and the D 97 to La Tour Fondue. The, you have 3 parking lots available :

CROSS the sea

Ferries

Ferries cross to the island from La Tour Fondue every half-hour. The crossing takes approximately 10 min and costs 17€.

schedule:
price:
web: www.tlv-tvm.com

Boat taxi

For those who can not avail of the boat at scheduled times, a Boat Taxi service can be used: Taxi boat Pélican 24h/24h Tel: +33 6 09 52 31 19 | pelicantaxi@wanadoo.fr

From 7H to 19H : around 81€ for 1 to 6 persons
From 19H to 23H : around 90€ for 1 to 6 persons.

Call for Participation

Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:00:00 +0100

Dear colleagues,

Let us introduce the Joint ACP and GdR RO Summer School 2017. It will be held September, 18-22th, 2017 in Porquerolles island, France.

http://school.a4cp.org/summer2017

This summer school is co-organized by the ACP and the French constraint programming working group for “Constraints and Operational Research” within the CNRS research group “Operational Research”.

The topic of the school is “Hybridization of Constraint Programming and Operational Research: from practical opportunities to concrete implementation of solutions”. During this week, participants will be raised awareness on several classical and novel challenges at the frontier between Constraint Programming and Operational Research. This year a focus will be done on the tools that allow to provide concrete implementation of solutions. Particularly, the participants will be challenged on a given problem both in terms of modeling and implementation of a solution in their own standalone tool.

The school is intended for PhD students, masters students and industrial practitioners, who want to get a good understanding of capabilities and current research directions in the area of Constraint Programming, particularly at the frontier with Operational Research. Prior knowledge of Constraint Programming is not required, but general problem solving skills, good programming and mathematical skills will be helpful.

Any questions?

Email organizers at acpss2017@i3s.unice.fr

Get the poster

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:00:00 +0100

Hello!

The poster/flyer is now available here (format A3).

Flyers and posters can be mailed to you upon request at no charge. Email organizers at acpss2017@i3s.unice.fr

Hello World!

Sat, 21 Jan 2017 21:00:00 +0100

Our team is putting together the parts of a constraint programming and operational research related school in France - Joint ACP and GdR RO Summer School 2017.

This year event will take place on Porquerolles Island, Var, France - one of the 52 Places to Go in 2017 of the NY Times.

So should you also be excited? Well yes… and here’s why!

Attendance: we’re expecting over 50 attendees
Topic: more than 30 hours of pure constraint programming and operational research technologies
Date: 18-22 of September, expect courses, workshops, competition, and social events
Venue: Igesa School Center of Porquerolles
Speakers: we’re in the process of finalising the list of speakers

More details about speakers, competition and events will appear in subsequent posts, meantime subcribe to our mailing list (soon) and RSS feed in order not to miss any cool stuff about the summer school.