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Digest No. 2000-02 Editor: Graham Kendall Please send material/submissions/comments for the WATT Digest to gxk@cs.nott.ac.uk. WATT Digests are emailed monthly to WATT members and also appear here. Contents
Welcome to the WATT Digest no. 2000-02.
1. Report on PATAT 2000
PATAT (Practise and Theory of Automated Timetabling) 2000 took place in Germany from 16th - 18th Auguast 2000. This is the third PATAT conference. The first event was held in Edinburgh in 1995, the second event in Toronto was held in 1997. The third conference was hosted by Fachhochschule Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences. Wilhelm Erben was co-chair and
takes much credit for organising a very enjoyable conference. Edmund Burke, was the other co-chair, as he was for the previous PATAT conferences. 2. Full list of papers presented at PATAT 2000
1. P. Brucker, S. Knust (Osnabrck, Germany) Resource-Constrained Project
Scheduling and Timetabling 3. Upcoming Conferences
See http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1094-6136/sites.html for
updated list (maintained by Dirk Mattfeld) 27 August-1 Septemper 2000: Seville, Spain POMS: 1ST WORLD CONFERENCE ON PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT. Scope: among other topics: capacity planning and control, scheduling and sequencing, project management. Submission deadline: 10 March 2000. Contact: Professor Dr Jos A. Domnguez Machuca, Facultad CC. Econmicas y Empresariales, Dpto. E. Financiera y Direccin de Operaciones, Avda. Ramn y Cajal 1, 41018 Sevilla, Spain. Tel: +34 95 455 7627, Fax: +34 95 455 7570 E-mail: pom2000@cica.es URL: http://gideao.us.es/pomsevilla2000/ 29 August-1 September 2000: Munich, Germany Euro-Par 2000 - TOPIC 3: SCHEDULING AND LOAD BALANCING. Scope: scheduling and load balancing techniques are key issues for the performance of parallel applications. Support for scheduling and load balancing can be provided on application or system level. Submission deadline: 31 January 2000. Contact: Lehrstuhl fr Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation, Institut fr Informatik, Technische Universitt Mnchen, 80290 Mnchen, Germany. Tel: +49 89 289 22382, Fax: +49 89 289 28232 E-mail: europar2k@in.tum.de URL: http://www.in.tum.de/europar2k/ 30 August-1 September 2000: Brighton, U.K. KES'2000 - 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE-BASED INTELLIGENT ENGINEERING SYSTEMS. Scope: applications of intelligent systems to process engineering. Submission deadline: 1 March 2000. Contact: KES2000 Secretariat, Engineering Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, Brighton BN2 4GJ, U.K. Tel: +44 1273 642501, Fax: +44 1273 643976 E-mail: kes2000@brighton.ac.uk URL: http://luna.bton.ac.uk/ kes2000/ 4-6 September 2000: Cracow, Poland IPOM'2000 - IEEE WORKSHOP ON IP-ORIENTED OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT. Scope: planning, operating and managing of IP and related networks. Submission deadline: 31 March 2000. Contact: Andrzej Jajszczyk, Department of Telecommunications, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, Poland. Tel: +48 12 634 5582, Fax: +48 12 634 2372 E-mail: jajszcz@kt.agh.edu.pl 4-8 September 2000: Mexico City, Mexico X CLAIO - 10TH LATIN-IBERO-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND SYSTEMS. Scope: focus on the development of operations research tools in the following areas: combinatorial optimization, production planning and many others. Submission deadline: 31 March 2000. Contact: Felipe Maldonado, Instituto Mexicano de Investigacin de Operaciones y Sistemas, Apartado Postal 22-167, Mxico, DF, 14091 Mxico, D.F., Mexico. Tel: +52 5 606 4485, Fax: +52 5 606 4485 E-mail: claio@quitel.cs.buap.mx URL: http://quitel.cs.buap.mx/~claio/ 5-6 September 2000: Minsk, Belarus INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION METHODS IN SCHEDULING AND COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN. Scope: scheduling, combinatorial optimization, decomposition and aggregation in optimization. Submission deadline: 15 April 2000. Contact: Dr Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Surganova 6, 220012 Minsk, Belarus. Tel: +375 17 2842171, Fax: +375 17 2318403 E-mail: koval@newman.bas-net.by URL: http://www.univ-troyes.fr/dom/ 6-8 September 2000: Saarbrcken, Germany APPROX 2000 - APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS FOR COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS. Scope: focus on algorithmic and complexity aspects arising in the development of efficient approximate solutions to computationally difficult problems, i.e. scheduling. Submission deadline: 3 April 2000. Contact: Klaus Jansen, Institut fr Informatik und praktische Mathematik, Christian-Albrechts-Universitt zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098 Kiel, Germany. E-mail: kj@informatik.uni-kiel.de URL: http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~conf2000/approx2000// 9-12 September 2000: Dresden, Germany SOR 2000 - SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATIONS RESEARCH 2000. Scope: tracks scheduling and project planing, production and logistics, transport and traffic, etc., are provided. Submission deadline: 15 March 2000. Contact: Professor Dr Rainer Lasch, TU Dresden, Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Lehrstuhl fr BWL, insb. Logistik, 01062 Dresden, Germany. E-mail: sor2000@mailbox.tu-dresden.de URL: http://www.tu-dresden.de/sor2000 16-20 September 2000: Paris, France PPSN VI - 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROBLEM SOLVING FROM NATURE. Scope: characteristic for natural computation is the metaphorical use of concepts, principles and mechanisms underlying natural systems. Submission deadline: 1 March 2000. Contact: PPSN VI Conference Secretariat, INRIA Rocquencourt, Relations Exterieures, Bureau des Cours et Colloques Domaine de Voluceau - B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France. Tel: +33 1 3963 5053, Fax: +33 1 3963 5638 E-mail: PPSN2000@inria.fr URL: http://www.inria.fr/PPSN2000 18-22 September 2000: Singapore CP-2000 - 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING. Scope: among other topics planning, qualitative reasoning, real-time systems, resource allocation, robotics, scheduling. Submission deadline: 11 March 2000. Contact: Roland Yap, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, S16, Level 5, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore. Tel: +65 874 2972, Fax: +65 779 4580 E-mail: cp2000@ics.uci.edu URL: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cp2000/ 20-23 September 2000: Varna, Bulgaria AIMSA 2000 - 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Scope: methodology, systems, applications. Submission deadline: 12 May 2000. Contact: Danail Dochev, Institute of Information Technologies, Acad. G. Bonchev 29A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. Tel: +359 2 707586, Fax: +359 2 720497 E-mail: dochev@iinf.bas.bg URL: http://www.iinf.bas.bg/AIMSA2000 11-13 October 2000: Beijing, China ICC&IE-27 - 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS & INDISTRIAL ENGINEERING. Scope: among other areas, optimization, scheduling, inventory, ERP Systems, etc. Submission deadline: 15 April 2000. Contact: Professor Wang Ruigang, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, 46 Sanlihe Road, Beijing 100823, China. Tel: +86 10 6859 5318, Fax: +86 10 6859 5314 E-mail: iccie@163.net URL: http://www.cmes.org/ and http:http://www.umoncton.ca.cie 3-5 November 2000: Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.A. FS2000: AAAI FALL SYMPOSIUM 2000. Scope: behavior in artificial agents, such as critiquing, advice giving, tutoring, collaboration, and delegation. Submission deadline: 29 March 2000. E-mail: bauer@dfki.de URL: http://www.dfki.de/~bauer/fs2000/ 5-8 November 2000: San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. INFORMS - INFORMS FALL 2000 MEETING. Scope: sessions on almost all aspects of scheduling are provided. Contact: Conference Registration, INFORMS, One Richmond Square Ste 215, Providence, RI 02906, U.S.A. Tel: +1 409 845 4347 E-mail: way@acs.tamu.edu URL: http://ie.tamu.edu/informs2000/ 25-27 November 2000: Penang, Malaysia ASIAN'00 - ASIAN COMPUTING SCIENCE CONFERENCE. Scope: as a mayor topic Logics in Computer Science is announced. Submission deadline: 31 July 2000. Contact: Masahiko Sato, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. Tel: +81 75 753 5868 E-mail: masahiko@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp URL: ~asian00" name=tex2html5http://www.sato.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ asian00 5-8 December 2000: Singapore ICARCV2000 - 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL, AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS AND VISION. Scope: topics include flexible manufacturing systems, process automation, man-machine interactions, computer integrated manufacturing, factory modelling and automation. Submission deadline: 31 May 2000. Contact: Dr P. N. Suganthan, Block S2 B2c-129, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Republic of Singapore 639798. Tel: +65 790 5404, Fax: +65 792 0415 E-mail: EPNSugan@ntu.edu.sg URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/icarcv2000 11-13 December 2000: Cambridge, U.K. ES2000 - ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SPECIALIST GROUP ON KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS AND APPLIED ARTIFICIAL. Scope: recent developments in AI, covering a wide range of technical areas. Submission deadline: 19 June 2000. Contact: Ms Thelma Williams, Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, Chadwick Building, Liverpool L69 7ZF, U.K. Tel: +44 151 794 3666, Fax: +44 151 794 3715 E-mail: sges-conference@bcs.org.uk 12-15 December 2000: Wollongong, Australia ISA'2000 - INTERNATIONAL ICSC CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS. Scope: symposia on computational intelligence and industrial systems are provided. Submission deadline: 31 March 2000. Contact: ICSC International Computer Science Conventions, 5101C - 50 Street, Wetaskiwin, Alberta T9A 1K1, Canada. Tel: +1 780 352 1912, Fax: +1 780 352 1913 E-mail: operating@icsc.ab.ca URL: http://www.icsc.ab.ca/isa2000.htm 14-15 December 2000: Milton Keynes, U.K. PLANSIG2000 - 19TH WORKSHOP OF THE UK PLANNING AND SCHEDULING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP. Scope: scheduling. Submission deadline: 17 September 2000. Contact: Dr Max Garagnani, 19th U.K. Planning and Scheduling SIG, Department of Computing, Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, U.K. Tel: +44 1908 654812, Fax: +44 1908 652140 E-mail: m.garagnani@open.ac.uk URL: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/plansig2000 7-9 January 2001: Washington, DC, U.S.A. SODA 2001 - 12TH ANNUAL ACM-SIAM SYMPOSIUM ON DISCRETE ALGORITHMS. Scope: discrete optimization, mathematical programming, on-line problems. Submission deadline: 7 July 2000. Contact: SIAM Conference Coordinator, 3600 University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2688, U.S.A. URL: http://www.siam.org/meetings/da01/ 20-23 March 2001: Dubai IAM'2001 - INFORMATION SCIENCE INNOVATIONS IN INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING. Scope: among others production planning, scheduling and control, assembly planning and scheduling. Submission deadline: 30 June 2000. Contact: Professor Kathryn Stecke, School of BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 701 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234, U.S.A. E-mail: kstecke@umich.edu URL: http://www.icsc.ab.ca/163-info.htm 30 March-2 April 2001: Orlando, U.S.A. POM 2001 - 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SOCIETY. Scope: contributed papers on all topics related to teaching, research, and POM mastery are invited. Submission deadline: 15 September 2000. Contact: Bill Youngdahl, World Business Department, Thunderbird, 15249 N, 59th Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85306, U.S.A. Tel: +1 602 978 7050, Fax: +1 602 843 6143 E-mail: youngdb@t-bird.edu URL: http://www.poms.org/meetings.html 25-27 April 2001: Troyes, France MOSIM'01 - INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT. Scope: among others, production planning and scheduling (french language). Submission deadline: 30 September 2000. Contact: MOSIM'01 Secretary, Industrial Engineering Department, Universite de technologie de Troyes, 12, rue Marie Curie, 10010 Troyes cedex, France. Tel: +33 325 715629, Fax: +33 325 715649 E-mail: mosim01@univ-troyes.fr URL: http://www.univ-troyes.fr/mosim01 24-25 May 2001: Sakarya, Turkey IMS'2001 - 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS. Scope: information systems, database design, distributed information system design, decision support systems, management information systems. Submission deadline: 30 September 2000. Contact: Professor Dr Harun Taskin, Department of Industrial Engineering, Sakarya Unviversity, Esentepe Campus, Adapazari, Turkey. Tel: +90-264-3460353, Fax: +90-264-3460351 E-mail: taskin@esentepe.sau.edu.tr URL: http://www.sakarya.edu.tr/~ims/ 1-4 June 2001: Tainan, Taiwan ICOOC 2001 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION AND OPTIMAL CONTROL. Scope: scheduling has been noted explicitly. Contact: Professor S. Y. Wu. E-mail: icooc@math.ncku.edu.tw 4-7 June 2001: Budapest, Hungary IEA/AIE-2001 - 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF AI AND EXPERT SYSTEMS. Contact: Moonis Ali, General Chair IEA/AIE-2001, Southwest Texas State University, Department of Computer Science, MCS 560, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616, U.S.A. Tel: +1 512 245 3409, Fax: +1 512 245 8750 E-mail: ma04@swt.edu URL: http://www.sztaki.hu/conferences/ieaaie2001 13-15 June 2001: Utrecht, The Netherlands IPCO 2001 - INTEGER PROGRAMMING AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION. Scope: scheduling theory and algorithms. Contact: Karen Aardal. E-mail: ipco2001@cs.uu.nl URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/ipco2001 26-29 June 2001: Delft, The Netherlands EUROSIM 2001 - 4TH INTERNATIONAL EUROSIM CONGRESS. Scope: topics include complex systems, large scale systems, distributed systems, hybrid modelling, heterogeneous systems, hierarchical modelling. Submission deadline: 1 August 2000. Contact: Mrs T. Tijanova, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands. Fax: +31 15 2787209 E-mail: Eurosim2001-abstracts@PA.Twi.TUDelft.nl URL: http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/PA/Eurosim2001 9-11 July 2001: Rotterdam, Netherlands EURO XVIII - 18TH EURO CONFERENCE. E-mail: R.Zuidwijk@fac.fbk.eur.nl URL: http://www.euro2001.org/ 25-27 July 2001: New York City, U.S.A. APD2001 - 11TH INFORMS APPLIED PROBABILITY SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2001. Scope: stochastic scheduling, modeling of computer and communication systems, manufacturing systems, transportation systems. Contact: Karl Sigman, Center for Applied Probability, Columbia University, Department of Industrial Engineering and OR, S.W. Mudd Building, 500 West 120th Street, MC: 4704, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A. Tel: +1 212 854 3556, Fax: +1 212 854 8103 E-mail: sigman@ieor.columbia.edu URL: http://www.cap.columbia.edu/informs-aps/ap-2001.html 4-7 September 2001: Swansea, U.K. ECCOMAS 2001 - COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CONFERENCE. Details: Pamela Bye, Conference Officer, The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1EF, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)1702 354020, Fax: +44 (0)1702 354111. URL: http://www.ima.org.uk 3-7 November 2001: Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A. INFORMS - INFORMS FALL 2001 MEETING. Scope: sessions on almost all aspects of scheduling are provided. Contact: Conference Registration, INFORMS, One Richmond Square Ste 215, Providence, RI 02906, U.S.A. Tel: +1 800 343 0062, Fax: +1 401 274 3189 E-mail: meeting@informs.org URL: http://128.227.36.67/Informs2001/ 4. Admin and General Information for WATT Digest
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