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Digest No. 2001-03 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. 2001-03.
1. WATT EMAIL Groups
Just a reminder that a new e-mail list (watt-announcement@cs.nott.ac.uk) has been set up.
When anybody wants to make an announcement, please send an email to this e-mail list.
The e-mail will be forwarded to watt@cs.nott.ac.uk automatically. 2. EJOR Special Issue
A feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
on "Timetabling and Rostering" will be organised in conjunction with the
4th WATT Workshop. The deadline for submission of papers is 31st August
2001. A call for papers can be seen at 3. PATAT Selected Papers
The Selected papers from PATAT the 3rd International Conference for the
Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'2000) will be
available soon (published by Springer). All those that attended the
conference will automatically be sent a copy. A full list of the papers is available at 4. PATAT 2002 Call for Papers
Call for Papers This conference is the fourth 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 PATAT Conferences site. The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):
All submissions should include a cover page which states clearly: 1.the names of the authors 2.the contact person and address 3.e-mail address (if you have one) 4.Keywords 5.The category of submission (full paper or abstract) The keywords should mention the relevant conference themes listed above (if this is possible). Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of two categories: (a) Full Papers Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and unpublished work. Four (hard) copies of the paper should be submitted by January 25th 2002 to Prof. E.K.Burke at the address below. We expect the length of the final papers to be no more than 8000 words. These papers will be fully refereed by the programme committee and the accepted ones will appear in a conference proceedings (ISBN 90-806096-1-7). 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 Authors can submit abstracts of up to 1000 words to Prof. E.K.Burke. Four (hard) copies of the abstract should be submitted by January 25th 2002. Abstracts will be fully refereed. The ccepted ones will appear in the conference proceedings (ISBN 90-806096-1-7). 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). People who wish to give a talk (e.g. practitioners, researchers with incomplete work) but do not want to write an academic paper can submit under this category. Deadlines Paper/abstract submissions: January 25th 2002 Notification: April 26th 2002 (at the latest) See http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/patat/patat02/patat02.shtml for this call See http://project.kahosl.be/patat2002/ for the conference web site 5. IFORS Conference - CFP - University Timetabling
The sixteenth triennial conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, hosted by the UK Operational Research Society This session on University Timetabling within the Scheduling and Timetabling stream at IFORS 2002. Authors are invited to submit abstracts for presentation in the seesion on all aspects of university timetabling. The abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. There will also be the opportunity to submit a full paper of your work to a special issue of International Transactions in Operational Research. Details of how to submit are available at: http://www.som.umd.umich.edu/ifors2002/program.htm#publications Submission The deadline for abstract submissions is December 15th 2001. However please submit abstracts (up to 50 words, plain text) by email to jpn@cs.nott.ac.uk by November 30th as this will enable extra session(s) to be organised if required. Conference Details Further details about IFORS 2002 and the venue can be found on the IFORS 2002 web site: http://www.ifors2002.org/ 6. Softscan
In WATT Digest #2001-02, Item 11, you have requested information on items that may be of interest to the
members of WATT. We have developed a software package for timetabling for the Swiss College of Agriculture
in Zollikofen, Switzerland. An overview is available at http://www.softscan.net/products.html#timetabling
7. Recently Published Thesis A new thesis entitled "Constraint Satisfaction with Preferences" is available in PDF and PS from http://www.fi.muni.cz/~hanka/phd.html 8. Timetabling Bibliography
The WATT pages contain a comprehensive bibliography up to 1995
(see http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/watt/resources/bibliography.html)
9. Problem Datasets
The WATT pages contain a small number of problem datasets 10. Timetabling Resources
The WATT page at 11. 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. 12. Conferences of Interest to the Timetabling Community
Conferences of interest to timetablers can be found at the Conference
Diary web site for the Journal of Scheduling. The URL is |
