[DMANET] Call for Papers - PATAT 2020: 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

Call for Papers

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PATAT 2020

13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated
Timetabling

Bruges, Belgium, August 25-28, 2020



Conference website: http://patatconference.org/patat2020/

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patat2020

Submission deadline: February 28, 2020

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In more ways than one, 1995 was a momentous year: a small startup by the
name of Amazon sold its first book online, the first ever Wiki was launched,
and the Java programming language was announced to the world. But far more
importantly (some might say), the year also played host to the very first
PATAT conference in Edinburgh. The 2020 edition of PATAT will therefore mark
its silver anniversary. Organized by KU Leuven and to be held in beautiful
Bruges (Belgium) August 25-29, 2020, PATAT 2020 promises to provide the
perfect setting for researchers and practitioners to reflect on the
substantial progress made by the timetabling academic community over the
last twenty-five years as well as to anticipate where we might head
throughout the next twenty-five. To complement this historical reflection
and anticipation of the future, a range of exciting plenary talks will be
given by experts in established areas of timetabling as well as newly
emerging ones.



We therefore wish to extend a warm invitation to anyone with an interest in
timetabling or related problems to participate by submitting a paper by
February 28, 2020. Some topics of interest for the conference include, but
are certainly not limited to, the following: timetabling problems,
timetabling algorithms, timetabling applications, and any optimization
problems related to timetabling.



We are proud to announce that the following professors will deliver plenary
talks:

* Celso C. Ribeiro, Computer Science, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Brazil

* Sigrid Knust, Institut für Informatik, Universität Osnabrück, Germany

* Andrea Schaerf, Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy

* Deepak Ajwani, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin,
Ireland

* Peter Nightingale, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK



We look forward to welcoming you to Bruges where you will able to sample
some of the finest versions of the very best things life has to offer.



A special track will be dedicated to the International Timetabling
Competition (ITC 2019 - https://www.itc2019.org). The competition aims to
motivate further research on complex university course timetabling problems
coming from practice. Rich data sets from universities around the world have
been created for the competition. The competition is organized with the
support of PATAT, which welcomes any papers related to ITC 2019 in this
special track. Generally, these papers can be dedicated to some aspects of
all or to selected competition problems, their solution approaches as well
as modeling issues. Papers discussing ITC 2019 in the context of former
competitions are also of interest. The aim is to bring together timetabling
researchers and practitioners from all the disciplines who are interested in
the competition, its current status, or a further extension of the
university course timetabling inspired by the ITC 2019.



TOPICS:

Topics of interest and themes of the conference include, but not limited to:

- Educational Timetabling

- Timetabling in Transport

- Employee Rostering

- Sports Timetabling

- Timetabling in Healthcare

- Mathematical Programming

- Constraint-Based Methods

- Knowledge Based Systems

- Fuzzy Systems

- Heuristic Search

- Metaheuristics (e.g., Evolutionary Computation, Simulated Annealing, Tabu
Search, Ant Colony Methods)

- Systems to Build Systems (e.g., Hyper-heuristics, Algorithm Portfolios)


- Algorithm Configuration

- Artificial Intelligence

- Graph Colouring

- Resource Capacity Planning

- Parallel/Distributed Computing

- Hybrid Methods (e.g., Memetic Computing, Matheuristics)

- Machine Learning (e.g., Data Mining, Classifier Systems, Neural Networks)

- Expert Systems

- Multi-objective Approaches

- Multi-criteria Decision Making

- Foundational Studies (e.g., Complexity Issues)

- Timetabling Tools and Applications (e.g., Interactive and Batch Systems,
Standard Data Formats, Ontologies, Experiences)



IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Deadline: 28 February 2020

Notification of Acceptance: 30 April, 2020

Early Registration Closes: 15 June, 2020

Conference: 25-28 August, 2020



PUBLICATION:

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference. PATAT 2020 invites authors to submit their work in
one of three categories:

* Full papers, describing significant, original and unpublished work.

* Extended abstracts, up to 3000 words describing preliminary results,
position papers, incomplete papers or practitioners' experiences, for people
who wish to give a talk but do not want to submit a full paper.

* System demonstrations, abstracts of up to 1000 words describing the major
properties and contribution of implemented and/or commercial timetabling
systems.



All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the
programme committee. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral
presentation at the event and included in the PATAT 2020 proceedings after
they have been presented.



The submission details and link to the submission system are available at:

http://www.patatconference.org/patat2020/call-for-papers/



JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE:

Authors of all three categories will be invited to submit extended versions
of their original work as full papers for consideration to be published in a
Special Issue of an Academic Journal.



PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

* Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven (BE),
patrick.decausmaecker(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be

* Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven (BE),
greet.vandenberghe(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be

* Edmund Burke, University of Leicester (UK),
edmund.burke(ATT)leicester.ac.uk

* Barry McCollum, Queen's University Belfast (UK), b.mccollum(ATT)qub.ac.uk

* Ender Özcan, University of Nottingham (UK),
ender.ozcan(ATT)nottingham.ac.uk

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

* Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven (BE),
patrick.decausmaecker(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be

* Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven (BE),
greet.vandenberghe(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be








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