[DMANET] Online Award Ceremony for ITC 2019 International Timetabling Competition

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ITC 2019: Online Award Ceremony, September 2, 2020 at 2 PM CEST,
https://www.itc2019.org
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PROGRAM (about 2 hours)*

* Introduction
* Short description of the competition problems and data instances
* Short presentations of solution approaches by the finalists (5
minutes per participant)
* Competition results, winners & diploma
* Questions

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***ONLINE SETTING*

* Videoconference using Zoom, see the link at https://www.itc2019.org
* Advance testing of the Zoom using the provided link
* Send questions in advance using mailing list organizers@itc2019.org
* Questions during videoconference using chat in Zoom

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**UNIVERSITY COURSE TIMETABLING COMPETITION**

* Assignment of times and rooms to events
* Student sectioning based on course demands
* Optimization by minimizing penalties of
o time and room assignments,
o violated soft constraints,
o 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
* 10 institutions from five continents
* Early, middle and late instances, 10 instances each
* Data collected from the UniTime educational scheduling system

*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)
* ORTEC: optimization software and analytics solutions
* Apereo Foundation: supporting open-source software for higher education
* EURO working group on Automated Timetabling (EWG PATAT)
* UniTime educational scheduling system
* Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

***ORGANIZERS*

* Tomas Muller, Purdue University, UniTime, s.r.o.
* Hana Rudova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
* Zuzana Mullerova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
UniTime, s.r.o.

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See https://www.itc2019.org for more details.


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