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
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.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the Association for Constraint Programming, sign up here!
There is also the community-run constraints google group mailinglist for announcements and more.
If you are interested in organizing one of the two events, send your proposal to helene.verhaeghe@uclouvain.be by June 15th, 2025.
The ACP Executive Committee (EC) holds the annual International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP). Since the ACP plans CP conferences two years in advance, we now solicit bids for CP 2027. If you are interested in organising a future CP conference, then you need to make a proposal to the Conference Coordinator of the EC (helene.verhaeghe@uclouvain.be) by the 15th of June 2025.
The proposal must be made by those volunteering to be Conference Chairs (CC) of the conference and volunteering to be responsible for the budget and local arrangements in the proposed city. Proposals must follow the guidelines at http://www.a4cp.org/events/conference-organisation-policy and should address in brief all the following items:
The CCs of a CP conference are scientifically acknowledged people in the constraint programming community. A single person can be CC, but the workload is usually best distributed over several people. The EC will select one from the proposals submitted. The EC will independently select a Programme Chair (PC) for the conference to be responsible for the technical program.
The Association for Constraint Programming invites proposals for organizing the ACP Summer School on Constraint Programming in 2026. 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 2026 Summer School should send a proposal to helene.verhaeghe@uclouvain.be by the 15th of June 2025, covering the following aspects:
Co-location with related summer schools, such as those organised by SAT or ICAPS, will be viewed favorably. We will also take into account location, giving slight preference to locations where ACP believes there is an opportunity to expand the CP community.
The 2025 ACP Summer School, 25th - 29th August will take place in Benin, Africa! Website with more info, soon!.
The 31th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, August 10 - 14 2025, Glasgow, Scotland.
