PLANET Gap-Bridging Seminar

[johnl@aiai.ed.ac.uk]

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	PLANET Network of Excellence in Planning and Scheduling

	UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group

	*** FREE event with travel grants available ***

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	     Joint "Gap-Bridging Seminar" at PLANSIG 2001

	   Planning and scheduling in INDUSTRY and Academia
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		  12 December (afternoon), Edinburgh

 http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/conferences/ukpssig/gap-bridging/index.html

Industry and academia both work on planning and scheduling, but they
do not work together as well as one would hope.  They have different
goals.  Industry must sell, academia must publish, and there is no
time to talk to the other people.

PLANET is trying to do something about this.  There will be a
"gap-bridging seminar" the day before PLANSIG 2001, the twentieth
Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group.

THIS IS THE FIRST EVENT OF THIS KIND. At it, practitioners from
industry will talk about their work - the techniques, the problems,
customer needs, what can and cannot be done.  We hope this will set
research in planning and scheduling in context.


Speakers

 Howard Beck, DIAGONAL, http://www.sap.diagonal.co.uk
 Roberto DeSimone, Qinetiq, http://www.qinetiq.com
 Colin Francis, Cairo/LINE, http://www.cairo.co.uk
 Graham Hackwell, Preactor International, http://www.preactor.com
 John Spragg, APSOLVE, http://www.apsolve.com


In order to encourage industry/academic links, PLANET is subsidizing
attendance at the seminar.  There is NO FEE FOR ATTENDANCE.


PLANET will support at least 15 people FROM ANYWHERE IN EUROPE at
these rates:


  Students    	           up to 250 euro per person

  Members of PLANET nodes  up to 250 euro per person, 2 people per node


For non-members, a limited number of special arrangements are available.
Please contact the organiser.

Note that you can combine this with PLANSIG 2001.

If you want to attend, send an email to Sam Steel (sam@essex.ac.uk)
with your name, organization, status, contact details.


Sam Steel
Department of Computer Science, University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
sam@essex.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1206 872786

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