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 4th Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling (WATT)

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The 4th WATT Workshop will be held at the EURO Conference in Rotterdam,
The Netherlands, on July 9-11, 2001. Details of the EURO Conference can
be seen on the Web page:

http://www.fbk.eur.nl/PRJ/EURO2001/content.html

As in the past, the workshop will be organised as a special session (or
sessions) at the conference. The session will consist of a number of
talks dealing with various issues on automated timetabling
research/work. To give a talk you should submit an abstract, not longer
then 1400 characters, by March 15, 2001 following the instructions given

on the Web site:

http://www.fbk.eur.nl/PRJ/EURO2001/sub.html

The deadline for submission has already been extended. Please
adhere strictly to this deadline, as no other extensions will be
possible.

Authors of abstracts are invited to submit a full paper to a feature
issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) on
"Timetabling and Rostering". The deadline for submission of papers is
31st August 2001.  The full call for papers is included below.
For more details about this feature issue see

http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/watt/events.html

Please note that although the feature issue of EJOR is being held
in conjunction with the workshop it is NOT necessary to attend the
workshop in order to submit a paper to the feature issue.

The abstracts should be submitted either via e-mail or by ordinary mail
to:

Sanja Petrovic
Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road
Nottingham NG8 1BB
UK
Fax: +44 (0)115 951 4249
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Accepted abstract will be published in a Conference proceeding.

Please note that EURO may be able to subsidise the cost of attendance at

the conference for Central and East European WATT members and for
student members.


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                                Call for Papers

Feature Issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)

                            "Timetabling and Rostering"

                 Guest Editors: Edmund Burke and Sanja Petrovic

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A feature issue of EJOR will be aimed at all aspects of timetabling and
rostering research.  Original, high quality papers are sought from
across the range of theoretical and applied timetabling research issues.

This feature issue is being organised in conjunction with the
4th Workshop of the EURO Working Group on Automated Timetabling
(WATT) being held at the 18th European Operational Research Conference
(EURO XVIII) in Rotterdam, July 9-11, 2001.  For more details
about the workshop see

http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/watt/events.html

Submission of papers to the issue is NOT restricted, however, to the
workshop attendees and papers are sought from across the timetabling
and rostering research community.

The articles submitted will be peer-reviewed, according to the usual
procedure of the European Journal of Operational Research.

Topics covered by the feature issue may include, but are not restricted
to the following aspects of Timetabling and Rostering:

    o  Applications
    o  Theoretical Issues
    o  Heuristics and Meta-heuristics
    o  Knowledge Based Approaches
    o  Distribution and Large Scale Issues
    o  Solution Quality and Evaluation
    o  The Impact of Emerging Technologies

Manuscripts can be submitted either via e-mail or by sending 4
hard-copies to the address indicated below. All submissions should
include a title page containing title, contact author, author(s) names
and affiliations, regular postal addresses, and e-mail addresses.

Sanja Petrovic
Guest Editor, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
University of Nottingham
School of Computer Science and IT
Automated Scheduling, Planning and Optimisation Group
Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
UK
Email: [log in to unmask]

Deadline for submissions:          August 31, 2001

Detailed instructions for authors can be found at:

http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/orms/eor/menu.htm

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