Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

1. Best young researcher paper for Jean-Guillaume Fages and Tanguy Lapègue at the 19th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming.

2. Silver medal for the library Choco at the MiniZinc International Challenge 2013 in the open class category.

3. Silver medal for the library Choco at the MiniZinc International Challenge 2013 in the parallel search category.

4. Bronze medal for Florian Richoux at the AI competitions organized at the conferences AIIDE 2013 and CIG 2013 for developing an artificial intelligence, AIUR, to play the real time strategy game $StarCraf{t}^{tm}$, using both machine learning and constraint-based techniques.

Best Paper Award :

[30] Filtering AtMostNValue with difference constraints: application to the Shift Minimisation Personnel Task Scheduling Problem in 19th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'13).
J.-G. Fages, T. Lapègue.