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CALL FOR PAPERS : The 2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2005), 18 - 21 July 2005, New York, 2005 http://www.mistaconference.org/ We are pleased to announce that MISTA 2005 has the following plenary speakers * Egon Balas * Ed Coffman * Jan Karel Lenstra This conference is the second in a series of conferences (the first took place in Nottingham, UK in August 2003) that serves as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of multi-disciplinary scheduling. The conference will cover, but not be limited to, the following disciplines: * Artificial Intelligence * Computer Science * Engineering * Management * Manufacturing * Mathematics * Operational Research The aim is to bring together scheduling researchers and practitioners from all the disciplines that engage with scheduling research. The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to): * Agent Based Scheduling * Commercial Packages * Automated Reasoning * Timetabling * Constraint Logic Programming * Evolutionary Algorithms * Rostering * Knowledge-Based Systems * Heuristic Search * Real-Time Scheduling * Local Search * Shop-Floor Scheduling * Multi-processor Scheduling * Transport Scheduling * Process Scheduling * Complexity of Scheduling Problems * Rule-Based Expert Systems * Real World Scheduling * Large Scale Scheduling * Sports Scheduling * Production Scheduling * Vehicle Routing * Machine Scheduling * Meta-heuristic Search * Batch Scheduling * Theoretical Scheduling * Applications * Delivery Scheduling Submitting to MISTA =============== Authors are invited to submit papers in one of two categories: (a) Full Papers Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and unpublished work. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to submit their papers to a second round of refereeing so that their papers can be considered for a post-conference volume to be published by Kluwer. This can either be the same paper as was submitted to the conference or an updated version in the light of comments received or new work undertaken. Papers should be formatted using Kluwer guidelines. (b) Abstracts Authors can submit abstracts of up to 2 pages (formatted in the same way as for the full papers). Abstracts will be fully refereed. The abstracts will not go forward to the second round of refereeing for the post-conference volume. However, authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to write a paper (based on their abstract) and submit it for the selected papers volume at a later date (shortly after the conference). People who wish to give a talk (e.g. practitioners, researchers with incomplete work) but do not want to write an academic paper can submit under this category. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Please note, there is no page limit (for papers or abstracts). We do not want you to have to limit your work to fit in with some arbitrary page limit. However, the reviewers will be asked to comment on the papers quality, which will include if it seems overly long for what it is trying to say. All submissions should include a cover page which clearly states: * The title of the paper * Names, affiliations and EMAIL addresses of the authors * Who is the corresponding author * Keywords (chosen from the above list, where possible) * The category of submission (full paper or abstract) We will have an electronic submission and review process for this conference. More details will be available soon. International Advisory Committee ======================= Graham Kendall : Chair, TheUniversity of Nottingham, UK Abdelhakim Artiba, Facultes Universitares Catholiques de Mons (CREGI - FUCAM), Belguim James Bean, University of Michigan, USA Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Peter Brucker, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Edmund Burke, The University of Nottingham, UK Xiaoqiang Cai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ed Coffman, Columbia University, USA Moshe Dror, The University of Arizona, USA David Fogel, Natural Selection Inc., USA Fred Glover, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, USA Bernard Grabot, Laboratoire Gnie de Production - Equipe Production Automatise, France Claude Le Pape, ILOG, France Toshihide Ibaraki, Kyoto University, Japan Michael Pinedo, New York University, USA Ibrahim Osman, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Jean-Yves Potvin, Universit de Montreal, Canada Michael Trick ,Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Steef van de Velde, Erasmus University, Netherlands George White, University of Ottawa, Canada Gerhard Woeginger, University of Twente, Netherlands Program Committee =============== 1. Uwe Aickelin, The University of Bradford, UK 2. Hesham Alfares, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia 3. Abdelhakim Artiba, Facultes Universitares Catholiques de Mons (CREGI - FUCAM), Belguim 4. Belarmino Adenso-Diaz, University of Oviedo, Spain 5. Philippe Baptise, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA 6. James Bean, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, USA 7. Christopher Beck, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, University College Cork, Ireland 8. Michael Bender, SUNY Stony Brook, USA 9. Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland 10. Joachim Breit, Saarland University, Germany 11. Peter Brucker, University of Osnabrueck, Germany 12. Edmund Burke, The University of Nottingham, UK 13. Xiaoqiang Cai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 14. Jacques Carlier, Compiègne cedex France 15. Edwin Cheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 16. Philippe Chretienne, Paris 6 University, France 17. Ed Coffman, Columbia University, USA 18. Peter Cowling, The University of Bradford, UK 19. Patrick De Causmaecker, KaHo St.-Lieven, Ghent, Belgium 20. Mauro Dell'Amico, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy 21. Erik Demeulemeester, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 22. Kath Dowsland, Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd., UK 23. Andreas Drexl, University of Kiel, Germany 24. Moshe Dror, University of Arizona, USA 25. Maciej Drozdowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland 26. Janet Efstathiou, University of Oxford, UK 27. Wilhelm Erben, FH Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany 28. Dror Feitelson, The Hebrew University, Israel 29. Gerd Finke, Laboratory LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France 30. Peter Fleming, University of Sheffield, UK 31. David Fogel, Natural Selection, USA 32. Dalibor Froncek, University of Minnesota, USA 33. Michel Gendreau, Université de Montréal, Canada 34. Celia A. Glass, Department of Actuarial Sciences and Statistics, City University, UK 35. Fred Glover, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, USA 36. Bernard Grabot, Laboratoire Génie de Production - Equipe Production Automatisée, France 37. Alain Guinet, Industrial Engineering Department, INSA de Lyon, France 38. Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France 39. Martin Henz, National University of Singapore, Singapore 40. Jeffrey Herrmann, University of Maryland, USA 41. Willy Herroelen, Department of Applied Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 42. Han Hoogeveen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 43. Toshihide Ibaraki, Kyoto University, Japan 44. Graham Kendall, The University of Nottingham, UK 45. Jeffrey Kingston, University of Sydney, Australia 46. Hiroshi Kise, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan 47. Wieslaw Kubiak, MUN, Canada 48. Mitsuru Kuroda, Professor, Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan 49. Raymond Kwan, University of Leeds, UK 50. Claude Le Pape, ILOG, France 51. Chung-Yee Lee, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 52. Eugene Levner, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel 53. Arne Løkketangen, Dept. of Informatics, Molde College, Norway 54. Dirk C. Mattfeld, University of Bremen, Germany 55. David Montana, BBN Technologies, USA 56. Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany 57. Alix Munier, LIP6, university Paris 12, France 58. Alexander Nareyek, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 59. Klaus Neumann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 60. Bryan A. Norman, University of Pittsburgh, USA 61. Wim Nuijten, ILOG, France 62. Ibrahim Osman, American University of Beirut, Lebanon 63. Costas P.Pappis, University of Piraeus, Greece 64. Erwin Pesch, University of Siegen, Germany 65. Dobrila Petrovic, Coventry University, UK 66. Sanja Petrovic, The University of Nottingham, UK 67. Michael Pinedo, New York University, USA 68. Chris Potts, University of Southampton, UK 69. Christian Prins, University of Technology, Troyes, France 70. Jean-Yves Potvin, Université de Montreal, Canada 71. Kirk Pruhs, University of Pittsburgh, USA 72. Vic J. Rayward-Smith, University of East Anglia, UK 73. Colin Reeves, Coventry University, UK 74. Celso C. Ribeiro, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 75. Andrea Schaerf, University of Udine, Italy 76. Guenter Schmidt, Saarland University, Germany 77. Wolfgang Slany, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria 78. Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland 79. Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 80. Vincent T'Kindt, University of Tours, France 81. Roberto Tadei, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 82. Jonathan Thompson, Cardiff University, UK 83. Michael Trick,Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 84. Edward Tsang, University of Essex, UK 85. Denis Trystram, ID - IMAG, France 86. Steef van de Velde, Erasmus University, Netherlands 87. Greet Vanden Berghe, KaHo St.-Lieven, Ghent, Belgium 88. Stefan Voss, University of Hamburg, Germany 89. Jan Weglarz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland 90. Dominique de Werra, IMA, Faculté des Sciences de Base, Lausanne, Switzerland 91. George White, University of Ottawa, Canada 92. Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University, USA 93. Gerhard J Woeginger, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Twente, The Netherlands 94. Yakov Zinder, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 95. Qingfu Zhang, University of Essex, UK Important Dates =========== Deadline for Paper Submission : 21st January 2005 Referees Comments Returned to Authors : 15th April 2005 Camera Ready Deadline : 1st May 2005 Early Registration Deadline : 1st May 2005 MISTA Conference : 18th - 21st July 2005 -- Dr. Graham Kendall - Room C76 Senior Lecturer, School Of Computer Science & IT University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK Tel : +44 (0) 115 846 6514 Fax +44 (0) 115 951 4249 EMAIL : [log in to unmask] WWW : http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gxk This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.