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Call for papers:
EvoSTIM/EvoPLAN 2002 (in conjunction with EuroGP 2002)
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3rd-5th April, Kinsale, Ireland
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2002/evostim.html
Scheduling and Timetabling are amongst the most successful
applications of
evolutionary techniques. A related and promising field for
the application
of evolutionary methods is AI Planning.
EvoSTIM2002 is the third European event specifically dedicated to the
applications of evolutionary computation to scheduling and
timetabling,
following on from the successful EvoSTIM2001 held in Italy in
April 2001.
EvoSTIM2002 is merged with the Second EvoPlan workshop, the
first was held
in Las Vegas in July 2000, to include evolutionary methods
for AI Planning.
It gives European and non-European researchers in those fields an
opportunity to
present their latest research and discuss current developments and
applications.
It is also an opportunity to meet with other researchers and
industrialists
working in the same field.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Case studies of applications of evolutionary techniques to real- life
problems in scheduling, timetabling, and AI Planning
1) Theoretical Developments, including benchmarking and
other comparative studies
2) Hybrid methods and Novel Heuristics
3) Methods for fast and minimally disruptive rescheduling
4) Dynamic Scheduling
5) Distributed Scheduling
6) Scheduling in industrial environments including transport and
distribution
7) Educational courses and exam timetabling
8) Employee and workforce scheduling
9) Organisation and resource scheduling
10) Generation of plans and construction of planners
11) Plan merging and decomposition of planning problems
12) Handling of multiple goals in scheduling and planning
13) Planning under ressource constraints
Submission procedure
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Send your manuscript, at most 10 A4 pages long, in Springer
LNCS format
(instructions downloadable from
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/instruct/typeinst.pdf) to one othe
programme
chairs, Emma Hart <[log in to unmask]> or Martin Middendorf
<[log in to unmask]>, in gzipped PostScript or
pdf format by
email no later than 4 November 2001. The papers will be peer
reviewed by at
least two members of the program committee. Authors will be
notified via
email on the results of the review by 1 December 2001.
The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the
basis of the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera ready
version of
their manuscripts, along with text sources and pictures, by
20 December 2001.
The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings,
which will be
available at the workshop.
By submitting a camera-ready paper, the author(s) agree that
at least one
author
will attend and present each accepted paper at the workshop.
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: 4 November 2001
Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2001
Camera ready due: 20 December 2001
EvoWorkshops: 3-4 April 2002
Committee
> EvoSTIM Chairs:
> Emma Hart
> [log in to unmask]
> School of Computing
> Napier University
> 219 Colinton Road
> Edinburgh
> EH14 1DJ
> Scotland, UK
>
>
> Martin Middendorf
> [log in to unmask]
> Computer Science Group
> Catholic University of Eichstätt
> Ostenstr. 28
> D-85072 Eichstätt
> Germany
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> EvoSTIM program Committee (to be confirmed):
> Agoston E. Eiben (The Netherlands)
> Emma Hart (UK)
> Martin Middendorf (Germany)
> Ben Paechter (UK)
> Peter Swann (UK)
> Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (Italy)
> Peter Ross (UK)
> John Levine (UK)
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