ParSearchOpt14: Parallel Methods for Search & Optimization

ParSearchOpt14 – Parallel Methods for Search & Optimization
July 18, 2014 · Vienna, Austria

Satellite workshop of ICLP, IJCAR, and SAT at the 2014 Vienna Summer of Logic.

http://vsl2014.at/meetings/ParSearchOpt-index.html

Important Dates

Paper submission: April 4, 2014
Notification: May 2, 2014

Aims and Scope

ParSearchOpt is the fourth workshop in this series. It is a continuation of
the CP 2011 “Workshop on Parallel Methods for Constraint Solving”, the 2012
Shonan Meeting on “Parallel Methods for Constraint Solving and Combinatorial
Optimization”, and the CPAIOR 2013 workshop on “Parallel Methods for
Combinatorial Search & Optimization”.

In the last decade, with the development of multi-core workstations, the
availability of GPGPU-enhanced systems and the access to Grid platforms and
supercomputers worldwide, Parallel Programming reached mainstream programming
and appeared as a key issue in order to use in an efficient manner the
computing power at hand. With the move towards Exascale computing during this
decade, this trend will continue to gain importance.

Search methods and combinatorial optimization techniques are not isolated from
this phenomenon, as bigger computing power means the ability to attack more
complex combinatorial problems. In the last years several experiments have
been done to parallelize the execution of search methods such as SAT solving,
Constraint Programming and combinatorial optimization methods such as Local
Search, Meta-heuristics and Branch & Bound. However these works have mostly
been done for shared memory multi-core systems (i.e. with a few cores) or for
small PC clusters (a few machines). The next challenge is to devise efficient
techniques and algorithms for massively parallel computers with tens or
hundreds of thousands of cores in the form of heterogeneous hybrid systems
based on both multi-core processors and GPUs.

An important point is also for researchers working on the parallel search and
optimization in different fields to share their experience on both theoretical
and practical issues. This workshop is thus aimed to be a forum for
researchers willing to exchange ideas, theoretical frameworks, design of
algorithms and methods, implementation issues, experimental results and to
further boost this growing area of research through cross-fertilization. We
solicit papers on these topics, and welcome reports on work in progress, work
already presented in a different context, as well as position papers.

Paper Submissions

Papers must be 15 pages plus references and use the Springer LNCS style.
Papers must be submitted through EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=parsearchopt14

Program Committee

Salvador Abreu (Universidade de Évora and CENTRIA)
Alejandro Arbelaez (MSR-INRIA)
Philippe Codognet (JFLI - CNRS / UPMC / University of Tokyo) - chair
Daniel Diaz (Universite de Paris-I)
Youssef Hamadi (Microsoft Research)
Ines Lynce (INESC-ID/IST, University of Lisbon)
Jean-Charles Régin (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis / I3S / CNRS)
Ashish Sabharwal (IBM Research)
Lakhdar Sais (CRIL, Université d’Artois)
Horst Samulowitz (IBM Research)
Vijay Saraswat (IBM)
Christian Schulte (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Meinolf Sellmann (IBM) - chair
Peter Stuckey (University of Melbourne)
Guido Tack (Monash University) - chair
Charlotte Truchet (LINA, UMR 6241, Université de Nantes)