Online Award Ceremony for ITC 2019 International Timetabling Competition

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Hana Rudova

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ITC 2019:
          Online Award Ceremony, September 2, 2020 at 2 PM CEST,
          https://www.itc2019.org

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

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 organ...@itc2019.org
  • Questions during videoconference using chat in Zoom


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
  • 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.

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

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