Dear All,
Call For Papers for Scheduling Stream at OR49 - The Annual Conference of
the UK Operational Research Society
Edinburgh University, UK
September 4th to 6th, 2007
Scheduling Stream
You are invited to submit an abstract to present a paper during the
scheduling stream at the primary annual British OR conference, OR49.
The scheduling stream uses the widest possible definition of scheduling and
includes themes such as educational scheduling, transportation planning,
employee rostering, sports scheduling, all forms of timetabling, shop floor
scheduling, vehicle routing etc. All kinds of papers are welcome whether
they are purely theoretical or practical case studies.
Solution methods may vary from exact solution methods, heuristics or
hybrids. Implementation issues will also be of interest.
Keynote
There is an opportunity for each stream to have a keynote paper. This
would be a 'state of the art, future directions' paper normally having a
one hour slot and accessible to non-specialists. These keynotes can be
published in a conference booklet if the speaker produces a written
version. If you are interested in producing the keynote address, please
contact me directly (my e-mail address is at the bottom of this message).
Interested in presenting a paper?
You do not have to produce a written paper for the conference - a 'paper'
at the conference means approximately 20 minutes for a presentation plus 5
minutes for questions/discussion. If you have some ideas and would like to
try them out on someone before committing to a
paper, please feel free to contact the organiser of this stream (details
below).
Submitting an abstract
You may submit your abstract on-line via the OR Society's website at:
http://www.theorsociety.com
- in the Conferences section, under OR49. Here you can enter your details
and specify which stream you wish to join (our stream is
called 'Scheduling'). Abstracts are required ASAP.
Alternatively, you may contact the co-ordinator of the Scheduling Stream:
Dr Jonathan Thompson
Tel: 029 20875524
School of Mathematics, Cardiff University
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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