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MISTA 2011: Call for Papers (Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications) URL: http://www.mistaconference.org/(under construction) Dates: 9th– 12th August 2011 Location: Arizona, USA This is the preliminary call for papers for the Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications. The deadline for submission of papers is provisionally 30th January 2011. Conference Scope This conference is the fifth in a series of conferences (the first took place in Nottingham, UK in August 2003, the 2nd in New York in July 2005, the 3rd in Paris in 2007 and the 4th in Dublin in 2009) 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 • Algorithmics • Applications • Automated Reasoning • Batch Scheduling • Commercial Packages • Complexity of Scheduling Problems • Constraint Logic Programming • Delivery Scheduling • Evolutionary Algorithms • Heuristic Search • Knowledge-Based Systems • Large Scale Scheduling • Local Search • Machine Scheduling • Meta-heuristic Search • Multi-processor Scheduling • Process Scheduling • Production Scheduling • Real World Scheduling • Real-Time Scheduling • Rostering • Rule-Based Expert Systems • Shop-Floor Scheduling • Sports Scheduling • Theoretical Scheduling • Timetabling • Transport Scheduling • Vehicle Routing Submission Details Authors are invited to submit papers in one of two categories 1. Full Papers: These can be up to 10 pages and will be accepted as full papers at the conference. 2. Extended Abstracts: These shorter papers (to a maximum of 3 pages) will give you the opportunity to present your work at the conference. The abstracts will also appear in the conference proceedings. Plenary Talks These will be announced in due course Venue The venue will be announced shortly but it will be in Arizona Conference Proceedings We will be providing the proceedings on CD or USB. Both papers and abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. We will also make all the papers available on the conference web site after the conference. Post Conference Special Issue Both categories of papers will be invited to submit suitably revised and extended versions to a post conference issue of the Journal of Scheduling. Formatting Guidelines We will be providing both Word templates and Latex styles. We will only accept PDF file that have been formatted using these formatting styles. We do NOT want page numbers on the submissions as we will add these for the conference proceedings. Conference Chairs • John Fowler, Arizona State University, USA • Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK • Barry McCollum, Queens University Belfast, UK