Selected Papers from the Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications (CPORA'16)
A special issue of Computers (ISSN 2073-431X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2016) | Viewed by 15008
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Dear Colleagues,
The Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), will be held 11–14 September, 2016, at Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. For more information about the conference, please use this link: www.fedcsis.org/cpora.
Selected papers that presented at the Workshop CPORA (Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications) of FedCSIS are invited to submit their extended versions to this Special Issue of Computers after the conference, and, at the latest, by 15 November, 2016. Submitted papers should be extended to the size of regular research or review articles, with 50% extension of new results. All submitted papers will undergo our standard peer-review procedure. Accepted papers will be published in Open Access format in Computers and collected together in this Special Issue website. There are no page/publication charges for this journal.
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