Welcome

The International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming will take place in Melbourne, Australia alongside SAT 2017 and ICLP 2017 from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 which is the week immediately following IJCAI 2017.

This is the 23rd edition of the annual conference on all aspects of computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The Association for Constraint Programming has a list of previous conferences in this series.

The CP 2017 program will include presentations of high quality scientific papers on constraints technology. In addition to the usual technical track, the CP 2017 conference will feature thematic tracks. Each track has a specific sub-committee to make sure that competent reviewers will review the papers submitted by people of these domains.

A number of invited talks on important topics relevant to the field will also be presented. Beyond the usual workshop, tutorial and doctoral programs, we will repeat the published paper track in which important results that have recently appeared in journals or sister conferences will be presented, the journal publication fast track for outstanding submissions, and the industry outreach program.