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Digest No. 2000-03
Editor: Graham Kendall
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Digest to gxk@cs.nott.ac.uk.
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Contents
Welcome to the WATT Digest no. 2000-03.
In this issue:
- Special Session at GECCO 2001
- Upcoming Conferences
- Items Wanted
- Admin and General Information for WATT Digest
1. Special Session at GECCO 2001
At GECCO 2001 (San Francisco, California, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel, July 7-11) there are a series of "Birds of a Feather" Workshops. These will be held on Saturday 7th July.
One of these sessions (being organised by Peter Cowling and Graham Kendall) is entitled
The Next Ten Years of Scheduling Research
The details are below
This workshop will allow those attending to discuss how scheduling research can be advanced in the next ten years. There are many techniques that have been reported in the literature that have produced excellent results when applied to scheduling problems. For example the use of meta-heuristic techniques (such as tabu search and simulated annealing) and evolutionary
techniques (such as genetic and memetic algorithms). One emerging research area is to develop heuristics that operate at a higher level of generality than current technology can support. This will involve advances in heuristics, meta-heuristics and an emerging technique tentatively called a hyper-heuristic. Another interesting idea is to use an "adaptive" heuristic. This uses the idea that a scheduling problem can be solved using a heuristic
but, for many reasons, this heuristic can lead to solutions which, although, better than previous efforts, can be even better if the heuristic is allowed to adapt as the search progresses. Through this workshop we hope to achieve three main aims: Allow the delegates to learn about some of the latest techniques and ideas that are being applied by leading researchers in the scheduling community. Invite other researchers to present their ideas as to how the field should develop in the next ten years. We are not looking for results of their current research, rather we are looking for new, blue sky ideas that can lead the research in the near future. Promote discussion on these ideas so that the scheduling community as a whole can benefit.
Further details about these workshops can be found at
http://gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2001/workshops/index.html
The main GECCO page is at http://gal4.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2001/
In addition a page for the scheduling workshop is being maintained at
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gxk/gecco2001/
The organisers would encourage you to submit to this fully referreed session. If you require any more information plesae contact either
Peter Cowling (pic@cs.nott.ac.uk) or Graham Kendall (gxk@cs.nott.ac.uk)
2. Upcoming Conferences
See http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1094-6136/sites.html for
updated list (maintained by Dirk Mattfeld)
Another list of conferences can be found at
http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/resources/conferences.shtml
Please EMAIL Graham Kendall (gxk@cs.nott.ac.uk) if you know of a conference
that is not shown on either of these pages.
3. Items Wanted
In order to make WATT Digest as interesting as possible, I would like to include as much as I can in each issue. Please let me have anything that you think may be of interest to the
timetabling community.
Just to give you some ideas, how about sending me:
Titles and abstracts of good, recent papers you have come across, Upcoming conferences that we have missed in the lists from the digest, Reviews of papers Details about software packages, Recently published thesis Timetabling problems that you are working on (and maybe could use some help with), Questions that you would like to ask the community.
4. Admin and General Information for WATT Digest
If you wish to contribute this list, send your submissions to Graham Kendall at the University of Nottingham, UK. My EMAIL address is gxk@cs.nott.ac.uk. If you wish to subscribe/unsubscribe to WATT you should visit joining WATT
The WATT website can be found at http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/
Two sources for lists of conference can be found at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1094-6136/sites.html and http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/resources/conferences.shtml
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WATT Digest is edited by
Graham Kendall - Room C80
Lecturer, School Of Computer Science & IT
University of Nottingham
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