CALL FOR PAPERS
PATAT 2002
The 4th international conference
on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling
Wednesday, 21st August - Friday, 23rd August 2002
KaHo St.-Lieven
Gent
Belgium
This conference is the fourth 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. For more
information about the series of conferences see
http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/ttg/patat-index.html
The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):
o Sports Timetabling
o Educational Timetabling
o Transport Timetabling
o Employee Timetabling
o Complexity Issues
o Distributed Timetabling Systems
o Experiences
o Implementations
o Commercial Packages
o Interactive vs Batch Timetabling
o Timetable Updating
o Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems
o Timetabling Research Areas, including: Constraint Based Methods
Evolutionary Computation
Artificial Intelligence
Graph Colouring
Expert Systems
Heuristic Search
Knowledge Based Systems
Operational Research
Simulated Annealing
Local Search
Mathematical Programming
Soft Computing
Tabu Search
Submissions:
All submissions should include a cover page which
states clearly:
(1) the names of the authors
(2) the contact person and address
(3) e-mail address (if you have one)
(4) Keywords
(5) The category of submission (full paper or abstract)
The keywords should mention the relevant conference themes listed above
(if this is possible).
Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of two categories:
(a) Full Papers
Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and
unpublished work. Four (hard) copies of the paper should be submitted
by January 25th 2002 to Prof E.K.Burke at the address below. We expect the
length of the final papers to be no more than 8000 words.
These papers will be fully refereed by the programme committee
and the accepted ones will appear in a conference proceedings
(ISBN 90-806096-1-7).
As in previous years, a selection of the papers will appear in a post
conference volume published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series. The second round of refereeing for this volume will take place shortly
after the conference.
(b) Abstracts
Authors can submit abstracts of up to 1000 words to Prof E.K.Burke.
Four (hard) copies of the abstract should be submitted by January 25th
2002.
Abstracts will be fully refereed. The accepted ones will
appear in the conference proceedings (ISBN 90-806096-1-7). The actual
abstracts will not go forward to the second round of refereeing for
the post-conference volume. However, authors of accepted abstracts
will have the opportunity to write a paper (based on their abstract)
and submit it for the selected papers volume at a later date
(shortly after the conference).
People who wish to give a talk (e.g. practitioners, researchers with
incomplete work) but do not want to write an academic paper can submit
under this category.
Deadlines:
Paper/abstract submissions January 25th 2002
Notification April 26th 2002 (at the latest)
Programme Committee
Edmund Burke (co-chair) University of Nottingham, UK
Patrick De Causmaecker (co-chair) KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Viktor Bardadym L&H Speech Products NV, Belgium
Patrice Boizumault Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Peter Brucker University of Osnabruck, Germany
Michael Carter University of Toronto, Canada
David Corne University of Reading, UK
Peter Cowling University of Nottingham, UK
Andrew Cumming Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Kathryn Dowsland Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd.
Wilhelm Erben FH Konstanz - University of Applied
Sciences, Germany
Jacques Ferland Universite de Montreal, Canada
Emma Hart Napier University, UK
Martin Henz National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Alain Hertz EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland
Jeffrey Kingston University of Sydney, Australia
Gilbert Laporte Universite de Montreal, Canada
Vahid Lotfi University of Michigan-Flint, USA
Michael Magazine University of Cincinnati, USA
Amnon Meisels Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva,
Israel
Thiruthlall Nepal ML Sultan Technikon, Durban,
South Africa
James Newall University of Nottingham, UK
Ben Paechter Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Sanja Petrovic University of Nottingham, UK
Peter Ross Napier University, UK
Andrea Schaerf Universita` di Udine, Italy
Jan Schreuder University of Twente, Enschede,
The Netherlands
Wolfgang Slany Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
Jonathan Thompson Cardiff University, UK
Michael Trick Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, USA
Dominique de Werra EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland
George White University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael Wright Lancaster University, UK
Jay Yellen Rollins College, USA
Masazumi Yoshikawa Softbank EC holdings Corp, Japan
About the Venue:
Ghent lies near the junction of two rivers: the "Schelde" and the "Leie".
Some historians think that the name of the city is derived from the Celtic
word "ganda" which means "confluence". During the 13th and 14th centuries
Ghent was one of the largest towns in Western Europe. During that period it
was also the seat of the Counts of Flanders and the heart of the Flemish
cloth trade. In the 16th century, Charles V showed no compassion when the
habitants refused to pay extra taxes, even though Ghent was his native
city. He punished them severely by ordering the most important citizens to
appear before him to ask for mercy while carrying a noose around their
necks. That is why the people of Ghent are nicknamed Stropkes, which
is the Dutch word for the hangman's noose.
Ghent is the fourth largest city of Belgium (approx. 250,000 inhabitants).
Although it is less famous than Bruges, some people consider it the real
diamond of Belgium since it has managed to preserve its medieval character
while keeping up with the times. The conference venue "Het Pand" is a
beautifully preserved example of a medieval Dominican monastery built in the
13th century. Modern Ghent has an important harbour, thanks to the canal
Gent-Terneuzen which allows sea-going vessels to come to the city. It is
also the flower city of Belgium. Flower growers from the region around
Ghent sell their begonias and azaleas all over the world.
Ghent is easily accessible from Brussels airport. Several national and
international trains stop in station Sint-Pieters. Since Ghent is situated
at the intersection of two important motorways (E17 and E40) it can also
easily be reached by car.
The following websites provide more information about Ghent:
http://www.gent.be
http://www.travel.com/gent.htm
More information about the conference centre is available on
http://aivwww.rug.ac.be/Pand/
For more information, contact:
Prof E.K.Burke
Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group.
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
or
Prof P.De Causmaecker
Information Technology
KaHo St.-Lieven
Gebr. Desmetstraat 1
9000 Gent
Belgium
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
PATAT 2002 WEB SITE
Full updated information is always available from
http://project.kahosl.be/patat2002/
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