The 1st International Conference for the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'95)

Wednesday 30th August - Friday 1st September 1995
Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

Selected papers from this conference have been 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 Ben Paechter.
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:
  • Implementations
  • Experiences
  • Distributed timetabling systems
  • Interactive vs batch timetabling
  • Complexity issues
  • Techniques, including:
    1. Genetic Algorithms
    2. Constraint Logic Programming
    3. Simulated Annealing
    4. Graph Colouring
    5. Operations Research
    6. Expert systems
  • Relationship with other scheduling problems
Programme Committee:

Edmund Burke [co-chair] University of Nottingham, UK
Peter Ross [co-chair] University of Edinburgh, UK
Victor Bardadym George Soros Foundation, Ukraine
Patrice Boizumault École des Mines de Nantes, France
Michael Carter University of Toronto, Canada
Dave Corne University of Reading, UK
Andrew Cumming Napier University, UK
Marco Dorigo Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Wilhelm Erben Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany
Alain Hertz EPFL, Switzerland
Hideto Ikeda Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Jeff Kingston University of Sydney, Australia
Fumio Kitagawa Okayama University of Science, Japan
Gilbert Laporte Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, Canada
Henri Luchian Al I Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Ben Paechter Napier University, UK
Jan Schreuder University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dennis Spuck University of Houston Clear Lake, USA
Jonathan Thompson University of Wales Swansea, UK
Rupert Weare Hoskyns Group plc, UK
Dominique de Werra EPFL, Switzerland
George M White University of Ottawa, Canada
Anthony Wren University of Leeds, UK


Organising Committee:

Ben Paechter [chair] Napier University, UK
Edmund Burke University of Nottingham, UK
Dave Corne University of Reading, UK
Amanda Coulter Napier University, UK
Andrew Cumming Napier University, UK
Denis Edgar-Nevill Napier University, UK
Kirk Jackson University of nottingham, UK
Peter Ross University of Edinburgh, UK
Guiti Saberi Napier University, UK
Rupert Weare Hoskyns Group plc, UK