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*** MISTA 2013: Call for Papers ***

27-30 August 2013, Gent, Belgium

http://www.schedulingconference.org/



MISTA 2013 is the sixth in the conference series. The conference serves as a 
forum for an international community of
researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of multi-disciplinary 
scheduling.

There is a special issue of the Journal of Scheduling associated with this 
conference. If you present a paper or
abstract at the conference, you will be invited to submit a paper to this 
special issue. More details can be found on
the web site.

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

     Full Papers: There is no page limit but the reviewers will be asked to 
comment (if necessary) on the length of the
paper. These papers will be will be accepted as full papers at the conference.

     Extended Abstracts: These shorter papers (try to limit to 3 pages) will 
give you the opportunity to present your
work at the conference. The abstracts will also appear in the conference 
proceedings.

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 -

Both Word templates and Latex styles are available from the web site. We will 
only accept PDF files that have been
formatted using these formatting styles.

You might also be interested to know that you are able to access all the papers 
from the previous MISTA conferences
(2003 is still being completed) through the conference web site.
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