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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
PATAT 2004
The 5th international conference
on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling
Wednesday, 18th August - Friday, 20th August 2004
Sheraton Hotel
Pittsburgh
USA
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04
Early registration deadline: JULY 1, 2004
This conference is the fifth 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.
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
Invited Speakers:
The following have agreed to give invited presentations at this conference:
Cindy Barnhart, MIT
Martin Henz, National University of Singapore
Irv Lustig, ILOG
Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon
Research Presentations:
More than 70 research presentations are planned, encompassing the broad range
of issues in timetabling. Titles and abstracts are available at
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04 . Full papers and extended abstracts will
be available in the conference proceedings available to participants.
Registration Fees:
Registration fees include admission to all technical sessions, an opening
reception (Tuesday), 3 breakfasts (Wednesday-Friday), 3 lunches
(Wednesday-Friday), and 2 dinners (Wednesday and Thursday). Registration
does not include hotel costs nor the optional Saturday outings. The
registration fees are:
* Regular: $650 preregistration/$800 late registration
* Student: $300 preregistration/$400 late registration
SPECIAL: The first 50 students to register will receive
$100 off their fee
Please register through the conference web site http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04
EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JULY 1, 2004
Hotel:
The conference will be held at the Sheraton Station Square across the river
from downtown Pittsburgh. The special conference rate of $119/night (plus
tax) is available through our web site at http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04
ROOMS ARE LIMITED SO EARLY RESERVATION IS ENCOURAGED
Saturday Excursion:
The PATAT conference has a traditional outing on the Saturday after the
conference. We have arranged two tours to the spectacular Pennsylvania
countryside: the first is a whitewater rafting tour, the second involves a
tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece Fallingwater. Spots
are limited so please reserve your space upon registration. An additional
fee is charged for this outing.
Programme Committee
Edmund Burke (co-chair) University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Trick (co-chair) Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jonathan Bard University of Texas, USA
Viktor Bardadym Noveon Inc., Belgium
Cynthia Barnhart MIT, USA
James Bean University of Michigan, USA
Patrice Boizumault University of Caen, France
Peter Brucker University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Michael Carter University of Toronto, Canada
David Corne University of Exeter, UK
Peter Cowling University of Bradford, UK
Patrick De Causmaecker KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Kathryn Dowsland Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd.
Andreas Drexl University of Kiel, Germany
Moshe Dror University of Arizona, USA
Wilhelm Erben FH Konstanz -
University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jacques A. Ferland University of Montreal, Canada
Martin Henz National University of Singapore, Singapore
Alain Hertz Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Michel Gendreau Centre de Recherche sur les Transports,
Montreal, Canada
Jeffrey Kingston University of Sydney, Australia
Raymond Kwan University of Leeds, UK
Gilbert Laporte HEC Montreal, Canada
Vahid Lotfi University of Michigan-Flint, USA
Anuj Mehrotra University of Miami, USA
Amnon Meisels Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
George Nemhauser Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Thiruthlall Nepal Durban Institute of Technology,
South Africa
James Newall EventMap Ltd, UK
Ben Paechter Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Gilles Pesant Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Sanja Petrovic University of Nottingham, UK
Jean-Yves Potvin Universite de Montreal, Canada
Andrea Schaerf Universita` di Udine, Italy
Jan Schreuder University of Twente, Enschede,
The Netherlands
Stephen Smith Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jonathan Thompson Cardiff University, UK
Paolo Toth University of Bologna, Italy
Greet Vanden Berghe KaHo St.-Lieven, Belgium
Stefan Voss University of Hamburg, Germany
Dominique de Werra EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland
George White University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael Wright Lancaster University, UK
Jay Yellen Rollins College, USA
About the Venue:
Pittsburgh has long shed its reputation as a town of soot and smog. Today,
it is a vibrant city with a new wave of high-tech and service industries and
architectural masterpieces. Intimate restaurants and high-energy clubs
make Pittsburgh one of the "most livable" cities in the country. Pittsburgh
boasts abundent shopping at great prices, world-class museums, symphony,
ballet, opera, and a multitude of attractions.
The conference will be held in one of Pittsburgh's most active areas. Lying
just south of downtown, Station Square incorporates shopping, bars,
restaurants, and clubs. Downtown is a short walk away across the
river. Frequent river boats offer a unique view of Pittsburgh, and can
even be used to get to Pittsburgh's sports venues. The conference hotel,
the Sheraton Station Square, is at the heart of this area, and offers
both affordable rates and outstanding conference facilities.
Pittsurgh International Airport was ranked number one in the United States
and number three in the world by Conde Nast Traveler and is a short 20
minute cab ride from Station Square.
On the Saturday after the conference, we will organize outings to the
beautiful Pennsylvania countryside. One group will head off to some
of the best white-water rafting in the eastern seaboard. The
Youghiogheny offers challenges to experienced rafters while not
overwhelming the novice. A second group will head out to tour one
of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces "Fallingwater", a home
through which a stream literally runs. The two groups will meet up for
final conversation.
You can find more information about Pittsburgh at
http://www.visitpittsburgh.com/cvbonline/default.asp
and more about the hotel at
http://www.starwood.com/sheraton/search/hotel_detail.html?propertyID=693
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 M.Trick
Graduate School of Industrial Administration
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
PATAT 2004 WEB SITE
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