CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
PATAT 2006
The 6th International Conference
on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
http://patat06.muni.cz
30th August - 1st September 2006
Brno, Czech Republic
-------------------------------------
Submissions for System Demonstrations
-------------------------------------
Submission deadline: January 27th
-------------------------------------
Authors are invited to submit an abstract, describing the major
properties and contribution of implemented and/or commercial
timetabling systems. Abstracts should not exceed 1000 words (3-4
pages). Authors of accepted submissions in this category are
expected to provide a demonstration of their software during the
conference. Demonstration submissions will be evaluated on the basis
of their innovation, relevance and scientific contribution. The
abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings but they
will not be forwarded to the second round of refereeing for the
post-conference volume. However, authors of accepted system
demonstration abstracts are welcome to submit a full paper to the
post-conference volume if they so wish.
Submission deadline: January 27th 2006
The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):
o Educational Timetabling
o Transport Timetabling
o Employee Timetabling and Rostering
o Sports Timetabling
o Complexity Issues
o Distributed Timetabling Systems
o Experiences
o Implementations
o Commercial Packages
o Interactive vs Batch Timetabling
o Timetable Updating
o Standard Data Formats
o Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems
o Timetabling Research Areas, including:
Constraint-Based Methods
Evolutionary Computation
Artificial Intelligence
Graph Colouring
Expert Systems
Heuristic Search
Knowledge Based Systems
Operational Research
Simulated Annealing
Local Search
Mathematical Programming
Soft Computing
Tabu Search
Meta-Heuristics
Hyper-Heuristics
Very Large Neighborhood Search
Ant Colony Methods
Hybrid Methods
Multi-Criteria Decision Making
Fuzzy Reasoning
For more information, see Call for Papers & Demonstrations available
from http://patat06.muni.cz/cfp.txt and
PATAT 2006 WEB SITE http://patat06.muni.cz
|