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Research in the Coconut team focuses on Constraint Programming, with a special interest in:
Other topics of interest are symmetries, cost function networks, adaptive solving, and distributed constraint reasoning. |
News + 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. |
