PATAT 2020: Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling KU Leuven Bruges, Belgium, August 24-27, 2021

Conference website	http://patatconference.org/patat2020/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patat2020
Submission deadline	February 28, 2020

PATAT 2020 moves to 2021

 

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, 24-28, 2021 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 February 28, 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 invited speakers will deliver plenary talks:

• 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

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.

A special track will be dedicated to the International Timetabling Competition (ITC 2019 - https://www.itc2019.org). The competition aims to motivate further research on complex university course timetabling problems coming from practice. Rich data sets from universities around the world have been created for the competition. Thecompetition is organized with the support of PATAT, which welcomes any papers related to ITC 2019 in this special track. Generally, these papers can be dedicated tosome aspects of all or to selected competition problems, their solution approaches as well as modeling issues. Papers discussing ITC 2019 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.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. PATAT 2020 invites authors to submit their work in one of three categories:

• Full papers describing significant, original and unpublished work.
• Extended abstracts of up to 3000 words describing preliminary results, incomplete papers or practitioners’ experiences, for people who wish to give a talk but do not want to submit a full paper.
• System demonstrations, abstracts of up to 1000 words describing the major properties and contribution of implemented and/or commercial timetabling systems.

Submission Format

All papers must be written in English and submitted as a PDF file. The authors should use the templates provided:

• The LaTeX version is preferred [Template] (this is the link: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/LaTeX.zip?SGWID=0-0-45-468198-0)
• The Microsoft Word (> 2007) version is also acceptable [Template]   (this is the link: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/journal-author/word-template-zip-154-kb-/22044)

No other format will be accepted!

All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be invited for an oral presentation at the event and included in the PATAT 2020 proceedings after they have been presented.

Journal Special IssueAuthors of all three categories will be invited to submit extended versions of their original work as full papers for consideration to be published in a Special Issue of an Academic Journal.

Important dates

Paper Submission Deadline              30 January, 2020 28 February 2020

Notification of Acceptance                 30 April, 2020 15 May 2020

Early Registration Closes                  15 June, 2020

Conference                                   25-28 August, 2020 24-28 August 2021

Committees

Program Committee

• Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven (BE), patrick.decausmaecker(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be
• Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven (BE),  greet.vandenberghe(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be
• Edmund Burke, University of Leicester (UK), edmund.burke(ATT)leicester.ac.uk
• Barry McCollum, Queen's University Belfast (UK), b.mccollum(ATT)qub.ac.uk
• Ender Özcan, University of Nottingham (UK), ender.ozcan(ATT)nottingham.ac.uk

 

Organizing committee

• Patrick De Causmaecker, KU Leuven (BE), patrick.decausmaecker(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be
• Greet Vanden Berghe, KU Leuven (BE),  greet.vandenberghe(ATT)cs.kuleuven.be

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@patatconference2020.org