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Tomáš Müller
Nov 19, 2019, 7:06:26 AM11/19/19
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Dear competitors,
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 January 30, 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.
The competition is finally over! We will be publishing the finalists and informing the winners soon. In the meantime, we would like to thank all of you that have spent time learning and solving the problem, even if you were not able to submit any solutions before the competition deadline. We sincerely hope that the research in this topic will continue and that the competition instances will play an essential role in comparing course timetabling solvers capable of solving real-world problems in the future.
The award ceremony will be held at the PATAT 2020 conference in Bruges, Belgium on August 25-29, 2020. At that point, all the uploaded solutions will become publicly available on the competition website, which will become a repository of the best-known solutions, publications about them, and may even include new instances in the future. Until then, it is still possible to validate and upload your solutions just like during the competition.
All competitors are welcome to submit a paper about their solver into the PATAT 2020: 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (see the PATAT 2020 call for papers below), which will include a special track about the competition. Generally, papers can be dedicated to some aspects of all or selected competition problems, their solution approaches as well as modeling issues. Works discussing this competition 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.
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PATAT 2020 Call for papers
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 January 30, 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:
PATAT 2020 will take place together with the COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms (COSEAL) workshop August 23-25, a few days before the conference begins. Further information regarding plenary speakers, paper submissions as well as the scientific and social program will be available soon at the conference website.
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.
Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Vanden Berghe
- 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
PATAT 2020 will take place together with the COnfiguration and SElection of ALgorithms (COSEAL) workshop August 23-25, a few days before the conference begins. Further information regarding plenary speakers, paper submissions as well as the scientific and social program will be available soon at the conference website.
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.
Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Vanden Berghe
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