News
- Deadlines for abstract and submission have been extended to May 5 and May 14 respectively.
- Information on financial support has been added.
Call for Doctoral Program Submissions
The Joint CP/SAT Doctoral Program (DP) is open to all research students, including past participants, who are conducting research related to constraint programming and satisfiability. The goal is to provide an informal environment for networking, presenting and discussing ongoing work, and receiving feedback from both fellow research students and experts in the field. Participation requires a paper submission to the DP, reviewing other submissions to the DP and attendance in person.
The DP is a two-day event (July 18-19, 2026). The exact schedule is yet to be confirmed, but the currently planned structure of its content is outlined as follows:
- Presentations and Poster Session: Each student is expected to give a presentation of their work, followed by a short Q&A session. Students with an accepted paper at the CP or SAT conference will give a shorter lightning talk, designed to pique the interest of the audience for their full presentation. Additionally, all students are required to create an A1 poster to be presented during the program. The primary goal of the poster session is to encourage research and to promote the students' work to potential future collaborators.
- Review Training: As part of the Doctoral Program, each participant will be assigned to review a submitted paper. The aim is to improve their reviewing skills by analyzing the work of their peers and receiving feedback from experienced researchers. The ultimate goal is to promote a positive reviewing culture, which is often disregarded in the field of computer science.
- Invited Talks: Mid-career or senior researchers will give invited talks to the DP participants. One of the talks will help students plan their career paths, while the other will focus on specific technical skills that are important to acquire for scientific research in the area of CP and SAT.
- Mentoring: We plan to pair each participant with a mentor from the community, who is either a professor or a post-doctoral researcher attending the main conferences. The mentor will discuss the student’s poster and provide constructive feedback. This is intended to promote networking opportunities for the Ph.D. students.
- Social Dinner: If sufficient financial support is obtained, a free dinner will be organized for DP participants on one of the evenings of the doctoral program. The dinner will be open to all students, invited speakers and chairs of the doctoral program.
Important Dates (anywhere on earth)
Abstract Deadline: May 5 7, 2026
Submission Deadline: May 12 14, 2026
Deadline for financial support requests: May 19, 2026
Review Deadline: May 28, 2026
Discussion: May 28 to June 1, 2026
Notification: June 2, 2026
Notification of Financial Support: June 2, 2026
Deadline of Camera Ready paper: June 9, 2026
Submission
To participate, students must submit a short paper. Papers must be primarily the work of the student and can be work in progress, completed work or recently published work. Students whose work has been accepted at CP 2026 or SAT 2026 can submit a two-page extended abstract summarising the key findings. Otherwise, students must submit an original paper of up to 8 pages describing completed or ongoing research or a summary of their research/PhD topic. Submissions can include up to one additional page of references.
The submission form must clearly specify the student as the first author and list all advisors and co-authors. Papers and extended abstracts must follow the LIPIcs guidelines of the main conferences and be in PDF format.
- Papers must not include author information in the text or metadata. All papers will go through a double-blind reviewing process, meaning that authors and reviewers are mutually anonymous. For this reason, submitted papers should not contain author names, affiliations, or links to identifying websites.
- Extended abstracts should have title and authors identical to the accepted paper. Extended abstracts will go through a single-blind reviewing process, meaning that reviewers are anonymous, but know the authors of the extended abstract.
All abstracts and papers should be submitted online through the FLoC 2026 submission system by selecting “New Submission” at https://submissions.floc26.org/dpcp/.
Accepted papers will be made available online but not published in formal printed proceedings. This allows the submitted work to be reused and/or extended for submission to other conferences and journals.
Invited Speakers
To be announced.Financial Support
Financial support may be available to cover conference-related costs, such as registration fees, accommodation, and travel expenses. Decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis. Priority will be given to doctoral students who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference. To apply, students should submit:
- A motivation letter explaining why financial support is needed, including an estimated breakdown of the requested costs in order of priority.
- A separate letter from their supervisor confirming the funding request, sent by the supervisor.
Both documents should be sent by email to cpsatdp @ cs.uni-freiburg.de no later than May 19, 2026.
Program
The program will be determined after the paper notification.Venue
TDB
Organization
André Schidler Mohamed Siala
University of Freiburg INSA Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS
Chair of Computer Architecture ROC Group
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