CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
PATAT 2006
The 6th International Conference
on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
http://patat06.muni.cz
Wednesday, 30th August - Friday, 1st September 2006
organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Hotel International
Brno
Czech Republic
This conference is the sixth in a series of conferences that serve as
a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and
vendors on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation. For more
information about the series of conferences see
http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/patat/patat-index.shtml
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 Data Models and 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
Combinatorial Optimisation
The Featured Keynote Speakers for this conference are:
Barry McCollum (Queen's University and eventMAP Ltd., UK)
Michel Gendreau (Centre de Recheche sur les Transports, Montr?al, Canada)
James Orlin (MIT, USA)
Andrea Schaerf (Universita di Udine, Italy)
Research Presentations:
More than 70 research presentations are planned, encompassing the broad range
of issues in timetabling. Titles, abstracts, and keywords are available at
http://patat06.muni.cz/schedule.html . Full papers, extended abstracts, and
system demonstrations will be available in the conference proceedings.
Registration Fees:
Registration fees include attandence at all presentations (invited talks, full
papers, extended abstracts, system demonstrations), ISBN proceedings
available during the conference, LNCS proceedings of selected papers
published after the conference, 3 lunches (Wednesday-Friday), coffee breaks,
2 dinners (Wednesday and Thursday), city tour on Tuesday evening, and the
use of conference facilities (wireless connection). The registration fees are:
Regular: 14,800 CZK early registration
16,000 CZK late registration
18,000 CZK on-site registration
First 50 students: 7,500 CZK early registration
8,500 CZK late registration
9,900 CZK on-site registration
Remaining students: 9,750 CZK early registration
10,750 CZK late registration
12,150 CZK on-site registration
Saturday trip: 950 CZK
Accompanying person: 2,800 CZK
First 50 registered students receive 2,250 CZK support from PATAT conference.
Please register through the conference web site
http://patat06.muni.cz/online/registration/
EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JUNE 27, 2006
Saturday trip:
The optional Saturday trip is an excellent opportunity to interact with other
conference attendees in an informal atmosphere. We will visit the Moravian Karst
region, which is very close to Brno. We have planned an excursion to the Punkva
caves where you will enjoy a trip by motorboat on an underground river, the
Punkva. We will also see the Macocha abyss, the deepest open abyss in Central
Europe. Next we will move to the brewery at Cerna Hora where we will have lunch.
We conclude our trip with a tour of the brewery which is one of the oldest
breweries in Moravia and Bohemia.
Accommodation:
PATAT 2006 will be held at the the Hotel International. A block of rooms at
the following discounted rates is being held for PATAT 2006:
Standard Single Room (1 person): 2250 CZK
Executive Single (1 person): 2550 CZK
Standard Double Room (2 persons): 2760 CZK
Executive Double (2 persons): 3420 CZK
A block of rooms at the following rates is being held for PATAT 2006 at
the Student Hostel Astorka with the following rates (rates are on a per person
basis regardless of whether one or two people occupy a double room):
Nightly Rate per Person (double room): 580 CZK
Nightly Rate per Person (3 bed room): 440 CZK
Student Nightly Rate per Person (double room): 290 CZK
Student Nightly Rate per Person (3 bed room): 220 CZK
Detail information on how to book accommodation can be found at
http://patat06.muni.cz/accommodation.html
ROOMS ARE LIMITED SO EARLY RESERVATION IS ENCOURAGED
Programme Committee:
Edmund Burke (co-chair) University of Nottingham, UK
Hana Rudova (co-chair) Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Hesham Alfares King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
Viktor Bardadym Noveon Inc., Belgium
James Bean University of Michigan, USA
Peter Brucker University of Osnabr?ck, Germany
Michael Carter University of Toronto, Canada
Peter Cowling University of Bradford, UK
Patrick De Causmaecker KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Kathryn Dowsland Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd. UK
Andreas Drexl University of Kiel, Germany
Wilhelm Erben FH Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jacques A. Ferland University of Montreal, Canada
Michel Gendreau Centre de Recherche sur les Transports, Montr?al, Canada
Alain Hertz Ecole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Canada
Jeffrey Kingston University of Sydney, Australia
Raymond Kwan University of Leeds, UK
Gilbert Laporte Universit? de Montr?al, Canada
Vahid Lotfi University of Michigan-Flint, USA
Amnon Meisels Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Thiruthlall Nepal Durban Institute of Technology, South Africa
Jim Newall eventMAP Ltd, UK
Ben Paechter Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Gilles Pesant Ecole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Canada
Sanja Petrovic University of Nottingham, UK
Jean-Yves Potvin Universit? de Montr?al, Canada
Rong Qu University of Nottingham, UK
Andrea Schaerf Universita di Udine, Italy
Jan Schreuder University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Jonathan Thompson Cardiff University, UK
Paolo Toth University of Bologna, Italy
Michael Trick Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Greet Vanden Berghe KaHo St.-Lieven, Belgium
Stefan Voss University of Hamburg, Germany
Dominique de Werra EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland
George White University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael Wright Lancaster University, UK
Jay Yellen Rollins College, USA
About the Venue:
Brno is the Czech Republic's second largest city. It lies in the
middle of South Moravia and is a thriving centre of commerce and
culture. The city has a rich history and a wide variety of
architectural styles dating back almost a thousand years. Lying right
at the heart of Europe, Brno is well placed to attract visitors from
around the world. The city is a major trade fair centre, a grand prix
motorcycle venue, and is the home of six universities and a number of
research institutes.
The conference will be held at the Hotel International (which is a
member of the Best Western Premier network of hotels). The hotel is
located in a pleasant area of the city between the Cathedral of St.
Peter and Paul and the 13th century Spilberk fortress. Parks
surrounding the fortress and cathedral provide a very convenient and
quiet walking area. Adjacent areas of the old city offer excellent
opportunities for shopping and a wide range of restaurants, pubs, and
bars. The conference hotel is reasonably priced and includes excellent
conference facilities.
Brno has a growing international airport. There are regular train and
bus connections to large international airports at Prague and Vienna
(Austria). Detailed travel instructions can be found at
http://patat06.muni.cz/travel.html
You can find more information about Brno at http://www.brno.cz/
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Conference Organisers are:
Edmund Burke
Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
and
Hana Rudova
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
Botanicka 68a
Brno 602 00
Czech Republic
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
PATAT 2006 WEB SITE
Full updated information is always available from
http://patat06.muni.cz
