Oct 01, 2020
Verlein Radwan joins the group for his PhD, under the supervision of Gilles Trombettoni. Welcome on board!
Feb 01, 2020
This year, three MSc students have chosen COCONUT for their Master's thesis: Elisa Gueneau, Verlein Radwan and Rami Younes. They will be part of the group for the next 6 months. Welcome on board!
Oct 27, 2019
Nassim Belmecheri, joint PhD student at LITIO (Université Oran 1) and LIRMM, joins the team for nine months.
Oct 17, 2019
Farah Amel Benzeghimi starts a PhD thesis on "Numerical Pattern Mining Based on Constraint Programming". She will be supervised by Nadjib and Christian.
Jul 01, 2019
We are pleased to receive Ignacio Araya, from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, as a visitor for 3 weeks.
Jul 01, 2019
Victor Reyes joins the team for a one-year postdoc.
Apr 04, 2019
Teddy Le, second year student at IUT Montpellier, joins the team for three months.
Feb 04, 2019
Mehdi Zrhal, M2 student at University of Montpellier, joins the team for five months.
Jan 01, 2019
Clément Carbonnel joins the team as CNRS Researcher.
Nov 19, 2018
Olivier Sans defends his PhD on "Interval methods and node selection strategies for constrained global optimisation".
Sep 13, 2018
Robert Woodward defends his PhD on "Higher-Level Consistencies: Where, When, and How Much".
Dec 01, 2017
We are pleased to receive Berthe Choueiry, from University of Nebraska, as a visitor for one month.
Nov 15, 2017
Nicolas Briot defends his PhD on "Constraint Programming for Routing in Precision Agriculture"
Apr 03, 2017
We are pleased to receive Yahia Lebbah, from University of Oran, as a visitor for one week.
Mar 13, 2017
We are pleased to receive Noureddine Aribi, from University of Oran, as a visitor for one week.
Feb 23, 2017
Jérôme Lang has visited Coconut for two days. He gave a talk on social choice
Oct 01, 2016
Mohamed Bachir Belaid starts his PhD Thesis
Oct 02, 2015
We are pleased to receive Redouane Ezzahir, from Agadir, as a visitor until end of October
Oct 01, 2015
Robin Arcangioli starts his PhD on "constraints, from acquisition to validation"
Sep 28, 2015
Yahia Lebbah visited Coconut during 1 week.
Sep 14, 2015
Mehdi Maamar joins us for 9 months working on Fault localization and Constraint based mining
Sep 02, 2015
Anastasia Paparrizou has received the ACP doctoral research
award 2015 for her PhD thesis, presented at UOWM, Nov 2013. The ceremony
took place during CP'15 in Cork, Ireland.
Mar 31, 2015
We hosted the meeting of the FET ICON at Lirmm during 2 days.
Mar 03, 2015
Christophe Lecoutre visited Coconut during 1 week.
Dec 01, 2014
Amine Balafrej joins the EMN contraints team
Nov 24, 2014
Amine Balafrej defends his PhD on Adaptative Propagation.
Sep 29, 2014
Jérôme Lang will give us a talk on: Introduction au choix social computationnel
Jun 23, 2014
Anastasia has received an honourable mention at the ECCAI Dissertation Award. Congratulations!
May 19, 2014
Christophe Lecoutre visited Coconut during 1 week.
Apr 11, 2014
Jean-Marie Lagniez will give us a talk on: A Computational Method for (MSS,CoMSS) Partitioning
Mar 28, 2014
Yahia Lebbah will give us a talk on: An interval based approach for graph-mining
Mar 21, 2014
Carmen Gervet will give us a talk on: How to boost AI and constraint programming to tackle real-world combinatorial problems: set objects and uncertain data parameters
Feb 21, 2014
Lakhdar Sais will give as a talk on Declarative aproaches for Data Mining
Nov 25, 2013
Christophe Lecoutre visited Coconut during 1 week.
Sep 24, 2013
John Slaney will give us a talk on Duality: A Fundamental Feature of Combinatorial Optimisation
Sep 19, 2013
The Coconut group is happy to have Berthe Choueiry as a visitor for the next few months
Sep 05, 2013
Robert Woodward arrives for one year in the Coconut group. Welcome to you!
Jun 10, 2013
Bertrand Neveu visited Coconut during 2 days to work with Philippe Vismara, Gilles Trombettoni and Clément Carbonnel on the q-intersection operator.
Jun 10, 2013
From June 10 to 21, Anastasia Paparrizou visited Coconut. She gave us a seminar on her recent work (eSTR).
Apr 08, 2013
We hosted the meeting of the FET ICON at Lirmm during 2 days.
Mar 29, 2013
Johan Thapper gives us a talk about "The Power of OSAC"
Mar 15, 2013
Felip Manyà gives us a talk about Encoding and Solving Optimization Problems with MinSAT and MaxSAT
Jan 09, 2013
We hosted the meeting of the ANR BR4CP at Lirmm during 2 days.
Nov 19, 2012
Amine, Christian, Remi and Nadjib move for a 3 days meeting in PISA
Oct 01, 2012
Nadjib Lazaar joins us to work on the ICON project.
Sep 01, 2012
Gilles Trombettoni joins the Coconut team
Sep 01, 2012
Mohamed Wahbi joins the EMN contraints team
Jul 03, 2012
Mohamed Wahbi defends his PhD on Distributed CSP
Jun 04, 2012
Basile Clement joins the team for 2 months
Jan 03, 2012
Gregor Hendel joins the team for 3 months
May 16, 2011
Jordi Planes, from Lleida University, who works on SAT/maxSAT, gives a talk
Apr 21, 2011
Gilles Trombettoni gives a talk about continuous non convex problems.
Apr 07, 2011
Frederic Maris talks about various aspects of time in Planning and Problem Transform.
Mar 22, 2011
Romaric Gaudel speaks of combinatorial aspects of Machine Learning.
Nov 30, -0001
We had the pleasure to receive Berthe Choueiry for one month.
Nov 30, -0001
On a la visite de Jérôme Lang, qui nous fait un séminaire sur le choix social.
November 25, 2010: Laurent Simon
Laurent gives a seminar on SAT
September 16, 2010: Byebye Yonggang
Yonggang gives his last talk before going back in China.
May 6, 2010: Pedro gives a talk
Pedro Meseguer presents their work on BnB-Adopt
May-June, 2010: Pedro and Patricia
Pedro Meseguer and Patricia Guttierez, from IIIA-CSIC, visit the
Coconut group.
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.