2008 election to the Executive Committee of the ACP ...

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2008 election to the Executive Committee of the
Association of Constraint Programming (ACP)

Call for candidates
Deadline: August 10, 2008
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We seek nominations for candidates for election to the Executive Committee
(EC) of the ACP. Candidates must be nominated by a member of the ACP or a
member of the Election Committee. Nominated persons must agree to be a
candidate and must write an election statement that will be posted on the
ACP election site.

Please send your nominations to Jimmy Lee <jlee (at) cse.cuhk.edu.hk> to
arrive by midnight (California time) on August 10th, 2008.

We recall that the Executive Committee of the ACP decides the venue of the
annual CP international conference, as well as its program and conference
chairs. It also organizes other activities such as the CP doctoral
programme, the CP summer school, the CP newsletter, web sites, etc.
Finally, it retains the surplus from CP conferences and re-invests it in
other activities of the CP research community. The current members of the
Executive Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming are:
Christian Bessiere, Jimmy Lee, Pedro Meseguer, Barry O'Sullivan, Francesca
Rossi, Thomas Schiex, Christian Schulte, and Mike Trick.

Bylaw 5 of the ACP Bylaws (see www.a4cp.org) dictates the election
procedure and rules. The 2008 is a transition year. According to the
transition year arrangement of the ACP Bylaws, Barry O'Sullivan and
Francesca Rossi will end their term this summer. In addition, we shall run
an election for (a) three new regular members to a four year term and (b)
two interim members to a two year term to the ACP EC.

The ACP EC has appointed the following Election Committee:

- (Chair) Jimmy Lee, Secretary of the ACP
- Pedro Meseguer
- Mike Trick

for the current election exercise.

Any member of the ACP not already an elected or ex officio member of the EC
can stand for election to the EC. One is a member of the ACP if the person
has registered in at least one CP conference in the last five years (except
if explicitly declining).

All nominated candidates will be treated equally in the upcoming election.
The top 3 elected candidates will serve as regular members of the EC with a
4 year term, and the next 2 will serve as interim members with a 2 year
term.

Elections will take place electronically in August-September 2008. Results
will be posted on the ACP web site before CP 2008.

The full rules are set out in the ACP website at www.a4cp.org.

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