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PATAT 2004 - EXTENDED DEADLINE
The 5th international conference
on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling
Wednesday, 18th August - Friday, 20th August 2004
Sheraton Hotel, Pittsburgh, USA
The organisers of the 5th PATAT conference have agreed to grant an
extension to the submission deadline due to (1) several requests
for more time, (2) a new electronic submission process that greatly
shortens the review time, and (3) the availability of funding to
support doctoral students in attending and presenting at the
conference. This new deadline is absolute and we regret that we
will not be able to accept any submissions that arrive after the new
deadline. The revised dates are:
Paper/abstract submissions FEBRUARY 16th 2004
Notification April 30th 2004 (at the latest)
Submissions:
Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of two categories:
(a) Full Papers
Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and
unpublished work. Such papers are expected to be approximately 10-20
pages in length but this guideline is not strict. These papers will be
fully refereed by the programme committee and the accepted ones will
appear in a conference proceedings.
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
Abstracts of up to 1000 words in length (3-4 pages) can be submitted by
those who wish to give a talk but do not want to write an academic paper.
Abstracts will be fully refereed. The accepted ones will appear in the
conference proceedings. 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).
Submission Process:
All submissions should be made through our online system available at
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04
Authors who cannot utilize the online system should contact one of the
co-chairs of the Programme Committee for instructions. Please note that all
participants will need to register for the conference and pay
the registration fee in order for accepted submissions to appear in
the conference proceedings.
For more information, contact:
Prof M.Trick
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
PATAT 2004 WEB SITE
Full updated information is always available from
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04
The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):
o Educational Timetabling
o Transport Timetabling
o Employee Timetabling
o Sports 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
The Featured Keynote Speakers for this conference are:
Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)
Martin Henz (NUS, Singapore)
Irv Lustig (ILOG)
Steve Smith (Carnegie Mellon)
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Michael Trick, Bosch Professor and President
Carnegie Bosch Institute, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu http://cbi.gsia.cmu.edu
Ph (412) 268-3697 Fax (412) 268-7057 [log in to unmask]
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