NEW UNIVERSITY COURSE TIMETABLING COMPETITION
- Assignment of times and rooms to events
- Student sectioning based on course demands
- Optimization by minimizing penalties of
-- time and room assignments,
-- violated soft constraints,
-- student conflicts
- Course structure for student sectioning
- Rooms with travel times and unavailabilities
- Events not meeting every week
RICH REAL-WORLD DATA INSTANCES
- Diverse characteristics
- 11 institutions from six continents
- Early, middle and late instances, around 8-10 instances each
- 6 test instances including large Purdue sets already available
- Data collected from the UniTime educational scheduling system
NO TIME OR TECHNOLOGY LIMITATIONS
- Commercial solvers allowed
- Looking for the best solutions
- Solution validator as a web service
MID-COMPETITION STANDINGS
- Two milestones during the competition
- Quality of the best solutions published
- 300, 200, 100 EUR for the top three solvers
WINNERS
- Five finalists, prices for the first three
-- 1000, 500, 250 EUR
-- Free PATAT 2020 registrations
- Awards supported by
-- PATAT conference
-- EWG PATAT
- Points awarded for each instance
-- More points for later instances
- Additional prizes also provided during the run of the competition
PATAT 2020 CONFERENCE
- A special track about the competition
- Winners announced
- Journal special issue
IMPORTANT DATES
November 15, 2018: Early data instances are published
February 1, 2019: 1st milestone submission
June 1, 2019: 2nd milestone submission
September 18, 2019: Middle instances published
November 8, 2019: Late instances published
November 18, 2019: Final submission
January 15, 2020: Finalists published
February-March, 2020: PATAT 2020 submissions
August, 2020: Winners announced at PATAT 2020
Autumn, 2020: Journal special issue
AFTER THE COMPETITION
- The ITC 2019 website remains available
- Tracking the best-known solutions and related papers
SPONSORS
- Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT)
- EURO working group on Automated Timetabling (EWG PATAT)
- UniTime educational scheduling system
- Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
ORGANIZERS
- Tomas Muller, Purdue University, UniTime LLC
- Hana Rudova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
- Zuzana Mullerova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, UniTime LLC
See <https://www.itc2019.org/> for more details.
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