ACP EC Election: Election Statement of
Yves Deville
(UCLouvain, Belgium)
CP is a mature field. In order to enhance its impact and its
growth, CP faces two main challenges: to attract talented young
researchers and to find fruitful synergies with related research
areas. As a member of the ACP Executive Committee, I would like to
promote and stimulate connections of CP with other communities and
research areas such as operational research, local search, SAT,
mathematical programming, optimization, programming languages,
planning, scheduling and learning. To attract young researchers, as a
member of the ACP/EC, I would support and encourage the existing
doctoral programs in CP conferences, the organization of CP summer
schools (as the one I organized with Christine Solnon this summer in
Aussois),
and introduce shadow Program Committees such as organized in networking
conferences. Such shadow PCs offer a unique educational
experience, ensuring young researchers to have experience with the
process of reviewing and selecting papers, and to be integrated
in our community.
I am in the CP community for many years (see
personal Web page). In my
research group, I am much
concerned with the education of PhD students. I am Associate Editor
of the Constraint Journal, member of the executive board of the AFPC
(French Association for Constraint Programming), and have been in the
program committees of CP and CPAIOR conferences.
August 2010
Yves Deville