Coconut is a research team that aims at proposing and combining models and algorithms in constraints, learning and agents.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of keywords related to the Coconut team:
Constraints: Constraint propagation, global constraints, dynamic constraint networks, overconstrained problems, quantified constraint satisfaction problems.
Learning: Inductive logic programming, scientific discovery, constraint learning, online learning, learning-to-reason, galois lattices, logical reformalation.
Agents: Distributed constraint satisfaction, models of rationality, emergent computation
News
October 22, 2009: Yonggang Zhang
Yonggang Zhang makes a presentation to describe his background, his chinese team at University of Jilin, and his former research. He will stay with us during one year. Welcome to Yonggang!
June 3, 2009: IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award!
We just learned that Frederic and Bruno Zanuttini will receive the IJCAI award for their paper on CP-net elicitation!
May 18--22, 2009: Comics meet in Montpellier
George Katsirelos joins the Comic group!
December 18, 2008: Guillaume's viva
Guillaume Verger defends his PhD on quantification in CSPs.
October 23, 2008: Canar visit
Julien Vion, currently postdoc in Canar, EMN Nantes, visited us to present his current work on detection of implicit constraints.
October 16, 2008: Microelectronics
Exciting meeting with P. Benoit, D. Puschini and L. Torres, from the mic dept. They presented their current work on systems on chips.
July 3, 2008: Mathias Paulin
Mathias Paulin defends his PhD on constraint acquisition for designing actions for robots.
June 12, 2008: Samba Ndiaye
Samba Ndiaye, LSIS Marseille, gives us a talk on the complexity of forward-checking and the decomposition hierarchy.
May 26--30, 2008: Comic meeting
A new member in the Comic group: welcome to Nina Naroditskaya!
Apr. 10, 2008: Cedric Piette
Cedric Piette, CRIL Lens, gives a seminar to the coconuts (Extracting MUS and MUST in SAT and CSPs).
Apr. 3, 2008: Jean-Christophe Janodet
Jean-Christophe Janodet, Curien lab in Saint Etienne, gives a seminar to the coconuts (Learning balls of words by correction queries).
Mar. 27, 2008: Xavier Lorca
Xavier Lorca, EMN Nantes, gives a seminar to the coconuts (Partitionnement de graphes).
Mar. 20, 2008: Idir Khemmoudj
Idir Khemmoudj gives a seminar to the coconuts.
Jan. 11, 2008: Brahim's viva
Brahim Hnich presents his habilitation at the University of Montpellier
Jan. 7--10, 2008: Comic meeting
The Comics meet in Montpellier
Dec. 26, 2006: Dischoco now available
See Dischoco
Oct. 2--6, 2006: Comic meeting
The Comics meet in Montpellier
Aug. 30, 2006: An ECCAI fellow in Coconut
C. Bessiere has become an ECCAI fellow during the ECAI conference in Riva del Garda
Jul. 07, 2006: R. Coletta's viva
Remi Coletta defends his PhD at the U. of Montpellier
Mar. 23, 2006: CP(Graph)
Yves Deville presents CP(Graph) to the Coconut members
Feb. 21, 2006: Microsoft research
Y. Hamadi and L. Bordeaux, from MSR Cambridge visit us for the constraint acquisition project
Sep. 1, 2005: Eric Bourreau
Eric Bourreau, from Elab/Bouygues, joins the Coconut group in Montpellier.
Mar. 17, 2005: Gilles Pesant visits us
Gilles Pesant, from U. Montreal, gives a seminar in Montpellier.
Oct. 5--12, 2004: The Comics meet again
The australian, irish and italian sides of the Comic group visit its French part in Montpellier
April 3--17, 2004: Mimic's visit
Toby, Brahim, Manu and Zeynep take the sun on the Comedie place.
Dec. 19, 2003: Manu
Manu Hebrard visits Coconut for the third time.
Dec. 18, 2003: Coconut thesis
Hervé Cros defends his PhD.
Nov. 24--27, 2003: The Spaniards...
Pedro Meseguer and Ismel Brito (IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra) visit us and attend the Miss France 2004 competition :)
Nov. 17--19, 2003: 4C in Montpellier again
After Toby Walsh, Brahim Hnich and Manu Hebrard, Barry O'Sullivan spends a week in Montpellier.
Sept. 10--20, 2003: 4C in Montpellier!!
Toby Walsh, Brahim Hnich and Emmanuel Hebrard visit the Coconut group.
July 01, 2003: Site Launch
The new web page is online.