CALL FOR PAPERS
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
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. For more
information about the series of conferences see
http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/patat/patat-index.shtml
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
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unpublished work.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 done through our online system available at
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04 (available September 1, 2003). Authors
who cannot utilize the online system should contact one of the co-chairs
of the Programme Committee for instructions.
Deadlines:
Paper/abstract submissions January 26th 2004
Notification April 30th 2004 (at the latest)
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
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
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
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 and dinner.
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
Full updated information is always available from
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/PATAT04
