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The 21st workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group
will be held November 21-22, 2002, at the Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands.

AIM
The workshop is a yearly forum where academics, industrialists and research
students can meet and discuss current issues in an informal setting. We
especially aim to bring together researchers attacking different aspects of
planning and scheduling problems, and to introduce new researchers to the
community. To encourage links with industry, the workshop includes a
PLANET-sponsored gap-filling seminar (GBS-2). In addition, PLANET and SIKS
are sponsoring attendance for post-graduate students.

In recent years the SIG has attracted an international gathering. We
continue to welcome contributions from around the world. For its
coming-of-age the workshop will be held outside Britain for the first time.

SCOPE
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): applications;
architectures; environmental and task models; formal models; intelligent
agents; learning; memory-based approaches; reactive systems; robotics;
constraint-based planning/scheduling and control techniques; co-ordination
issues in decentralised/distributed planning/scheduling; iterative
improvement techniques for combinatorial optimisation; Artificial
Intelligence and Operations Research.

SUBMISSIONS
Format of submissions:
Full papers: (approx. 5000 words). These should report work in progress or
completed work. Authors of full papers that are accepted by the Programme
Committee will be invited to give a talk on the paper.

Short papers: (2 pages) These should report views or ambitions, or describe
problems. The author(s) will be able to discuss the paper informally with
others at the workshop and will be invited to give a short presentation on
their work.

All papers and presentations should be in English.

Possible methods of submission:
Hard copy: three hard copies of papers should reach the Programme Chair by
4th October 2002.

Electronic (preferred): papers can be submitted via e-mail or made available
on the Web. In either case, documents should be in gzipped postscript or PDF
format and be named "author.ps.gz" or "author.pdf.gz", using the name of the
first author. An e-mail message containing either the file or its URL (e.g.
http://..../author.ps.gz) should reach the Programme Chair by the 4th
October 2002.

All submissions will be reviewed by two referees, and successful submissions
will appear in the Workshop Proceedings (ISSN 1368-5708). Accepted papers
will also be made available via the SIG web-site.

ATTENDANCE
Anyone with an interest in Planning and Scheduling is welcome - it is not
necessary to submit a paper in order to attend. However, accommodation will
be limited to 40-50 people.

REGISTRATION
The deadline for registration is 10th November 2002. Further details are at
http://www.pds.twi.tudelft.nl/activities/PLANSIG2002/intro.htm

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ruth Aylett, Salford University
Edmund Burke, Nottingham University
Roberto Desimone, QinetiQ Ltd
Brian Drabble, University of Oregon
Janet Efstathiou, University of Oxford
Maria Fox, Durham University
Max Garagnani, The Open University
Tim Grant, Atos Origin Nederland b.v. & University of Pretoria
Han Hoogeveen, University of Utrecht
Peter Jarvis, SRI International
John Levine, University of Edinburgh
Derek Long, Durham University
Lee McCluskey, Huddersfield University
Nico Roos, University of Maastricht & SIKS
Sam Steel, Essex University
Steef van de Velde Erasmus University
Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology
Gerhard Woeginger, Twente University of Technology


Chairs

Co-chair (workshop programme, GBS-2 & PLANET sponsoring)
Tim Grant, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Submissions and inquiries about papers should be sent to the Programme Chair
at the following address:

Tim Grant,
Atos Origin Nederland B.V.
P.O. Box 1444
NL-3430 BK Nieuwegein
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 (0)30 608 88 88
Fax: +31 (0)30 606 77 72
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

Co-chair (local organisation & SIKS sponsoring)
Cees Witteveen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Inquiries about the local organisation should be sent to the Local Organiser
at the following address:

Cees Witteveen
Dept of Information Technology and Systems
Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 4, NL 2628 CD Delft
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 (0)15 278 2521/7486
Fax: +31 (0)15 278 6632
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

IMPORTANT DATES
*** Deadline for submissions:   4 October 2002 ***
Notification of acceptance:     4 November 2002
Final copy of papers due:       8 November 2002
Deadline for registration:      10 November 2002
PLANSIG 2002:                   21-22 November 2002
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