CoProD'2026 is the eighteenth edition of CoProD. It will be held on
March 13, 2026, right before the Joint NAFIPS International
Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing and Explainable AI and
10th World Conference on Soft Computing NAFIPS 2026, El Paso,
Texas, USA, March 14-16, 2026,

https://sites.google.com/view/nafips26/


Constraint programming techniques are important components of
intelligent systems. They constitute a declarative and efficient
methodology to represent and solve many practical problems. They
have been applied successfully to a number of fields, such as
scheduling of air traffic, software engineering, networks
security, chemistry, and biology. Despite the proved usefulness of
these techniques, they are still under-utilized in real-life
applications. One reason is the perceived lack of effective
communication between constraint programming experts and domain
practitioners about constraints, in general, and their use in
decision making, in particular.


Objectives of CoProD:

* To present advances in constraint solving, optimization, and
related topics;

* To develop a network of researchers interested in constraint
techniques, in particular researchers and practitioners that use
numeric and symbolic approaches (or a combination of them) to
solve constraint and optimization problems;

* To address the gap between the great capacity of these techniques
and their limited use.

CoProD aims at encouraging presentation and discussion of on-going
work. In particular, please note that there is room for
presentation of ideas, as opposed to results only. It also aims at
facilitating networking opportunities as well as
cross-fertilization between the approaches used in the different
attending communities. Therefore, besides active researchers in
decision making and constraint programming techniques, we expect
to have a wide attendance and participation of domain scientists
-- whose input is highly valued in this workshop.


Proceedings / Publication:

Submissions should take 2-5 page (a few more pages is OK), if
possible, formatted using the Springer edited book format, style
file svmult.cls and an example of using this file (not related to
CoProD) are attached to the workshop website. Accepted submissions
of at least 4 pages will be published by Springer, as part of the
proceedings of the NAFIPS 2026 conference.

Please send the source file(s) and the resulting pdf file to
mceberio [at] utep [dot] edu and vladik [at] utep [dot] edu. A
contact author should be specified in the submission email. The
deadline for submissions is Fenruary 15, 2026 (Let us know if you
need a few more days). Authors of accepted submissions are expected
to participate and present their work at the workshop.


Participation / Submission:

Participation is encouraged from people doing research in the area
of decision making as well as from domain scientists. Submissions
of ideas are also encouraged.


Important dates:

February 15, 2026: deadline for submission
February 22, 2026: notification of acceptance
March 1, 2026: deadline for final versions of accepted submissions
March 13, 2026: workshop