NordConsNet: Objectives & History

Founded in May 2002, and a special interest group of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS) since September 2008, the objectives of NordConsNet (called SweConsNet until mid 2016) are:

Promotion of constraint programming (CP) in the Nordic European countries

Coordination and integration of constraint programming research and technology transfer in the Nordic European countries

Education on constraint programming in the Nordic European countries (see Courses on CP)

Information dissemination portal for the Nordic European countries: listing of problems solved with constraint programming, constraint programming support tools developed, constraint programming research projects, constraint programming courses and events, open jobs with a constraint programming profile, etc. (witness this website)

Connection to Nordic, European, and worldwide networks (for instance, NordConsNet is a special interest group of SAIS, the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society)

Organisation of technical meetings (see NordConsNet Workshops)

Toward these objectives, a paper entitled Constraint Programming in Sweden was published by Pierre Flener (UU), Mats Carlsson (SICS), and Christian Schulte (KTH) in the journal IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24(2):87-89, March/April 2009. (PDF)

The following MSc theses conducted or defended at NordConsNet nodes won the annual AI Master's Thesis Award of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS):

2016: Frej Knutar, Automatic Generation of Assembly Schedules For a Dual-Arm Robot Using Constraint Programming (UU)

2012: Rodrigo Ronald Gumucio Escobar, Constraints on Set Variables for Constraint-based Local Search (UU)

2011: Joseph Scott, Filtering Algorithms for Discrete Cumulative Resources (UU)

2010: Roberto Castañeda Lozano, Constraint Programming for Random Testing of a Trading System (KTH)