------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Feature Issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) "Timetabling and Rostering" Guest Editors: Edmund Burke and Sanja Petrovic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A feature issue of EJOR will be aimed at all aspects of timetabling and rostering research. Original, high quality papers are sought from across the range of theoretical and applied timetabling research issues. This feature issue is being organised in conjunction with the 4th EURO Working group on Automated TimeTabling (WATT) Workshop that was held at the 18th European Operational Research Conference (EURO XVIII) in Rotterdam, July 9-11, 2001. More details about the WATT group and the WATT workshops can be seen at http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/watt/ Submission of papers to the issue is NOT restricted, however, to the workshop attendees and papers are sought from across all the timetabling and rostering research community. The articles submitted will be peer-reviewed, according to the usual procedure of the European Journal of Operational Research. Topics covered by the feature issue may include, but are not restricted to the following aspects of Timetabling and Rostering: o Applications o Theoretical Issues o Heuristics and Meta-heuristics o Knowledge Based Approaches o Distribution and Large Scale Issues o Solution Quality and Evaluation o The Impact of Emerging Technologies Manuscripts can be submitted either via e-mail or by sending 4 hard-copies to the address indicated below. All submissions should include a title page containing title, contact author, author(s) names and affiliations, regular postal addresses, and e-mail addresses. The deadline for submission is September 30th 2001. Sanja Petrovic Guest Editor, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) University of Nottingham School of Computer Science and IT Automated Scheduling, Planning and Optimisation Group Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham, NG8 1BB UK Email: [log in to unmask] Deadline for submissions: September 30th, 2001 Detailed instructions for authors can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/orms/eor/menu.htm