Executive Committee Decisions

In this quarterly report 1, we provide updates on CP 2026, Summer School 2026, DEI opportunities, calls and much more.

ACP.1: CP 2026

The 32nd CP conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 20th to 23rd of July 2026, as part of FLoC 2026 (https://www.floc26.org/).

Registration is open! Early bid rates end on 15 May.

More information is available at https://cp2026.a4cp.org/

This quarterly report brings you reports on ACP membership, DEI opportunities, the next CP conference and the ACP Summer School.

ACP.1: ACP membership

As announced in the ACP General Assembly held at CP 2025, the Executive Committe has decided to tie ACP membership to CP conference and Summer School registrations, for three years, starting in 2025.

For members previously registered in the ACP website, membership will expire in three years unless they register to the CP conference or the Summer School.

This quarterly report brings you reports on the CP conference, including the awards handed out and the general assembly, the ACP Summer School, and more.

This quarterly report contains reminders on the ACP Summer School and CP conference 2025.

In this quarterly report 1, we provide updates on the ACP Executive Committee, the ACP Summer School 2025, and the calls for awards and bids for CP 2027 and ACP Summer School 2026!

ACP.1: Executive Committee Update

The ACP held elections last year to replace four outgoing members of the Executive Committee (EC).

We as a community greatly thank outgoing members David Bergman (president), Tias Guns (secretary), Zeynep Kiziltan (DEI delegate), and Chris Beck (past president).

In this quarterly report 4, we provide updates on AAAI Bridge and the coming two CP conferences.

AAAI25 Bridge

Eugene Freuder and Barry O'Sullivan are organizing the AAAI-25 Constraint Programming and Machine Learning Bridge, part of the AAAI-25 Bridge Program.

The focus will be on bringing together the traditional AI fields of constraint-based reasoning and machine learning, but participants from related fields of reasoning, optimization and learning, e.g. SAT, operations research, data mining, will be welcome.

This quarterly report brings you reports on the CP conference including the awards handed out, the general assembly and new ACP members, a call for DEI representatives and more.

[Reminder: please renew your free ACP membership by logging in on https://www.a4cp.org/user/login and in menu 'Your Membership > Renew membership' pressing the button 'Renew membership']

The past 3 months have been busy months for CP researchers, with the CP paper notification (accepted papers at https://cp2024.a4cp.org/accepted_papers.html), with the CP workshops calling for submissions and sending out notifications (workshop overview: https://cp2024.a4cp.org/workshops.html) and more. This has been announced on the CP2024 website https://cp2024.a4cp.org/ and its socials, as well as the constraints google group.

With the CP paper deadline now past, this quarterly report brings you updates about other tracks in the CP conference: a call for tutorials and doctoral program submissions, as well as the call for ACP Award nominations.

ACP.1 CP 2024 in Girona, Spain.

The 30th edition of the conference will take place from 2 to 6 September 2024 (mark your calendars...) in the lovely Girona in Catalonia, Spain.

Besides a main track, there will be 3 specialised tracks: Application track, CP and Machine Learning track, and CP and Quantum Computing track.