The Association for Constraint Programming aims at promoting constraint programming in every aspect of the scientific world, by encouraging its theoretical and practical developments, its teachning in the academic institutions, its adoption in the industrial world, and its use in the the application fields.
More about the ACP
About Constraint Programming
We provide a number of resources for you to explore the history and the state of the art of all aspects of computing with constraints.
- Read about Success Stories of our field.
- The PhD thesis archive is an initiative to collect and archive PhD dissertations from the field of Constraint Programming.
- And the Quarterly Reports of the ACP executive committee.
ACP membership
ACP membership is tied to CP conference and Summer School registrations, for three years. Alternatively, if you are interested in becoming a member of the Association for Constraint Programming, email the secretary miquel.bofill@udg.edu.
There is also the community-run constraints google group mailinglist for announcements and more.
Upcoming Events
CP2026
The 32nd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, July 20-23 2026 (with some workshops before, the 18-19, and some after, the 24-25), Lisbon, Portugal, during FLoC2026. More information on the website
2026 ACP Summer School
The 2026 ACP Summer School, will take place in Changchun, China, August 24-28 2026! More info on the website!
Call for bid for the 2027 ACP Summer School
The call for bid is currently open!
The Association for Constraint Programming invites proposals for organizing the ACP Summer School on Constraint Programming in 2027. Since its establishment, the summer school has been a major success with feedback from student attendees being very positive.
The proposed topic of the school can be on general CP or on a specific research subject. A complete list of ACP summer schools can be found here: http://www.a4cp.org/events/summer-schools
Members of the CP community who are interested in organizing the 2027 Summer School should send a proposal to helene.verhaeghe@uclouvain.be by the 31st of August 2026, covering the following aspects:
- topic of the school
- location (and possible co-locations)
- dates
- organizers
- tentative list of speakers
- provisional budget
Co-location with related summer schools, such as those organised by SAT or ICAPS, will be viewed favorably.