Wednesday, 18th August - Friday, 20th August 2004
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Selected papers from this conference are published in a post conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
The full proceedings are also available from Michael Trick.
Here there is a full list of papers and a list of selected papers.

This conference served as a forum for an international community of researchers on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation. The themes of the conference included:

• Educational Timetabling
• Transport Timetabling
• Employee Timetabling
• Sports Timetabling
• Distributed Timetabling Systems
• Experiences
• Implementations
• Commercial Packages
• Interactive vs Batch Timetabling
• Timetable Updating
• Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems
• 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

Programme Committee:

Edmund Burke [co-chair]	University of Nottingham, UK
Michael Trick [co-chair]	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jonathan Bard	University of Texas, USA
Victor Bardadym	Noveon Inc., Belgium
Cynthia Barnhart	MIT, USA
James Bean	University of Michigan, USA
Patrice Boizumault	University of Caen, France
Peter Brucker	University of Osnabruck, Germany
Michael Carter	University of Toronto, Canada
Dave 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, Audtralia
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	ML Sultan Technikon, Durban, South Africa
James Newall	EventMap Ltd, UK
Ben Paechter	Napier University, 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, Orlando, USA