-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling (WATT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th WATT Workshop will be held at the EURO Conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on July 9-11, 2001. Details of the EURO Conference can be seen on the Web page: http://www.fbk.eur.nl/PRJ/EURO2001/content.html As in the past, the workshop will be organised as a special session (or sessions) at the conference. The session will consist of a number of talks dealing with various issues on automated timetabling research/work. To give a talk you should submit an abstract, not longer then 1400 characters, by March 15, 2001 following the instructions given on the Web site: http://www.fbk.eur.nl/PRJ/EURO2001/sub.html The deadline for submission has already been extended. Please adhere strictly to this deadline, as no other extensions will be possible. Authors of abstracts are invited to submit a full paper to a feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) on "Timetabling and Rostering". The deadline for submission of papers is 31st August 2001. The full call for papers is included below. For more details about this feature issue see http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/watt/events.html Please note that although the feature issue of EJOR is being held in conjunction with the workshop it is NOT necessary to attend the workshop in order to submit a paper to the feature issue. The abstracts should be submitted either via e-mail or by ordinary mail to: Sanja Petrovic Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group School of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham NG8 1BB UK Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4249 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Accepted abstract will be published in a Conference proceeding. Please note that EURO may be able to subsidise the cost of attendance at the conference for Central and East European WATT members and for student members. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling (WATT) being held at the 18th European Operational Research Conference (EURO XVIII) in Rotterdam, July 9-11, 2001. For more details about the workshop see http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/watt/events.html Submission of papers to the issue is NOT restricted, however, to the workshop attendees and papers are sought from across 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. 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: August 31, 2001 Detailed instructions for authors can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/orms/eor/menu.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------