Dear competitors,
We are pleased to announce the following five finalists of the International Timetabling Competition 2019! Please note that the following list does
not reflect the final placement.
Alexandre Lemos, Pedro T Monteiro, Inês Lynce
INESC-ID / IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Efstratios Rappos
HEIG-VD, Switzerland
Karim Er-rhaimini
Ministère de l'éducation nationale, France
Dennis S. Holm, Rasmus Ørnstrup Mikkelsen, Matias Sørensen, Thomas R. Stidsen
MaCom / Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Edon Gashi, Kadri Sylejmani
University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Congratulations! More details, including the final placements, will be revealed at the award ceremony that 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.
Once again, we would like to congratulate the finalists and thank you all for the time and effort you have spent on the competition learning and solving the problem, even if you were not able to submit any solutions before the competition deadline. We are hoping to see a lot of you at the PATAT 2020 conference next August.
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. The conference website is available at
patatconference.org/patat2020.
Best regards,
Tomas, Hana, and Zuzana
organ...@itc2019.org