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                                         Full day Workshop on Automated Scheduling and Optimisation

                         
                                     Held at the University of Portsmouth on Wednesday May 12, 2010
                                      Supported by the Southern Operational Research Group (SORG)  

                                   
                                                                     Organisers

                                  Djamila Ouelhadj, Patrick Beullens, Dylan Jones, and Philippe Nemery
                                         Logistics and Mathematics Management Group (LMMG), 
                                           Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth
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Date and Time
Wednesday 12th of May 2010, 9.30 - 5.00. 

Venue
University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Building, room BB1.25.  
http://www.port.ac.uk/aboutus/contact/universitybuildings/buildingname,92564,en.html.

Programme
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9:00-9:20 Registration/Coffee 

9:20-9:30 Welcome 

9:30-10:30 Sanja Petrovic, University of Nottingham, 

        "Real-world scheduling in the presence of uncertainty"

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:45 Chris Potts, University of Southampton,

        "Using exponential neighbourhoods in local search algorithms for scheduling"

11:45-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Said Salhi, University of Kent

        "Integration of exact method and heuristics for heterogeneous vehicle routing with backhauls"

14:00-14:15 Coffee break

14:15-15:15 Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham

        "Hyper-heuristics in search and optimisation"

15:15-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Djamila Ouelhadj, University of Portsmouth

        "A cooperative hyper-heuristic framework"

16:30-17:00 Closure
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Note 
Registration is free. We supply coffee and lunch on Wednesday but the rest (accommodation, travel) needs to come from your own expenses. 

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Please contact one of the organisers for further information on this event. All are welcome.






Dr Djamila Ouelhadj

Senior Lecturer in Operational Research,
Logistics and Mathematics Management Group (LMMG)
University of Portsmouth,
Lion Gate Building, PO1 3HF, UK