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*** Apologies for cross-posting. *** Please forward to colleagues and students who may be interested. ************* EvoSTIM 2011 Call for Papers ******************** Submission Deadline: 22 November 2010 EvoSTIM 2011: 6th European Event on Nature-inspired Techniques in Scheduling, Planning and Timetabling Torino, Italy, 27-29th April 2010 http://www.evostar.org Scheduling, planning and timetabling problems are amongst the most successful applications of evolutionary techniques to date. A range of representations and operators may be applied to a wide spectrum of problems in this area. As this is a mature area, papers building on previous work and case studies on the acceptance and implementation of evolutionary scheduling, planning and timetabling systems in the real-world are welcome. EvoSTIM2011 represents an opportunity for evolutionary computing researchers in the inter-related areas of planning, scheduling and timetabling to come together, present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - case studies of applications of evolutionary techniques to real-life problems in scheduling, timetabling, and planning - theoretical developments, including benchmarking and other comparative studies - hybrid methods and novel heuristics - methods for fast and minimally disruptive rescheduling - dynamic scheduling, planning and timetabling - distributed scheduling, planning and timetabling - sequencing problems - scheduling and planning in industrial environments including production planning, transportation and distribution - educational course and exam timetabling - employee and workforce scheduling - organisation and resource scheduling - generation of plans and construction of planners - plan merging and decomposition of planning problems - handling multiple goals in scheduling and planning - planning under resource constraints Dates Submission deadline: 22 November 2010 Notification of acceptance: 7 January 2011 Camera-ready paper 1 February 2011 Chairs A. Şima Uyar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Neil Urquhart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Programme Committee: -------------------- Ben Paechter, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Ryhd Lewis, Cardiff Business School, UK John Levine, Strathclyde University, UK Sanem Sariel, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK Ender Ozcan, University of Nottingham, UK Nelishia Pillay, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Peter Cowling, University of Bradford, UK Sanja Petrovic, University of Nottingham, UK *****************************************************************************