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[cid:image001.jpg@01CCC159.2D28A3F0]<http://www.patat2012.com/> PATAT 2012: NOW OPEN FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS! The 9th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling 28th August – 31st August 2012 Son, Oslo, Norway This conference is the ninth 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. Featured Keynote Speakers Gilbert Laporte (HEC Montréal, Canada) Greet Vanden Berghe (KaHo Sint-Lieven, Belgium) Paul McMullan (The Queen's University of Belfast, UK) The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to): * Implementations * Commercial Packages * Complexity Issues * Distributed Timetabling Systems * Experiences Timetabling Research Areas, including: * Interactive vs Batch Timetabling * Timetable Updating * Standard Data Formats * Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems * Management vs Planning * Constraint-Based Methods * Evolutionary Computation * Artificial Intelligence * Mathematical Programming * Expert Systems * Heuristic Search * Knowledge Based Systems * Heterogeneous computing * Operational Research * Simulated Annealing * Hyper-Heuristics * Local Search * Ant Colony Methods * Machine Learning * Tabu Search * Meta-Heuristics * Very Large Neighborhood Search * Graph Coloring * Hybrid Methods * Multi-Criteria Decision Making * Fuzzy Reasoning * Data Mining Submissions The deadline for paper/abstract/system submissions is February 3rd, 2012. Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of three categories: 1 - Full Papers Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and unpublished work. Such papers are expected to be approximately 10-20 pages in length but this guideline is not strict. These papers will be fully refereed by the program committee and the accepted ones will appear in conference proceedings. 2 - Abstracts Authors can submit abstracts of up to 1000 words. Abstracts will be fully refereed. The accepted ones will appear in the conference proceedings. People who wish to give a talk (e.g. practitioners or researchers with preliminary or incomplete papers) but do not want to submit a full paper can submit under this category. 3- System Demonstrations Authors can also submit an abstract, describing the major properties and contribution of implemented and/or commercial timetabling systems. Abstracts should not exceed 1000 words (3-4 pages). Authors of accepted submissions in this category would be expected to provide a demonstration of their software during the conference. Demonstration submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their innovation, relevance and scientific contribution. The abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Detailed submission instructions are available at www.patat2012.com<http://www.patat2012.com/submissions.html>. Organizing and Program Committee co-chairs • Tomas Nordlander, SINTEF ICT, Department of Applied Mathematics • Atle Riise, SINTEF ICT, Department of Applied Mathematics • Barry McCollum, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast • Edmund Burke, Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group, School of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Nottingham