Online Award Ceremony for ITC 2019 International Timetabling Competition

[Hana Rudova]

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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 organ...@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
• 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.

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