REMINDER: CFP EvoSTIM 2003

["Hart, Emma" <E.Hart@napier.ac.uk>]

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
                              EvoSTIM 2003
              5th European Workshop on Scheduling and Timetabling
  
                   Part of EuroGP 2003/EvoWorkshops 2003
				14-16th April 2003, Essex, UK

 
http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evostim.html


(previous workshops: Göteborg, Sweden, 1999 ,Edinburgh, UK, 2000, Lake Como,
Italy, 2001, Kinsale, Ireland, 2002)

              
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A special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms
on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization will be published.
Authors of selected EvoSTIM papers will be invited to submit an extended
version for consideration in this special issue.
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Scheduling and timetabling are amongst the most successful applications of
evolutionary techniques. A related and promising field for the application
of evolutionary methods is AI planning. EvoSTIM2003 represents a unique
opportunity for evolutionary computing researchers in the inter-related
areas of planning, scheduling and timetabling to come together, present
their latest research and discuss current developments and applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-case studies of applications of evolutionary techniques to real-life
problems in scheduling, timetabling, and AI planning 
-theoretical developments, including benchmarking and other comparative
studies 
-hybrid methods and novel heuristics 
-methods for fast and minimally disruptive rescheduling 
-dynamic scheduling 
-distributed scheduling 
-scheduling in industrial environments including transport and distribution 
-educational courses and exam timetabling 
-employee and workforce scheduling 
-organisation and resource scheduling 
-generation of plans and construction of planners 
-plan merging and decomposition of planning problems 
-handling multiple goals in scheduling and planning 
-planning under resource constraints. 

Submission procedure:


Send your manuscript (Postscript or PDF, maximum length ten A4 pages) via
email to one of the workshop chairs no later than 20 November 2002. 

Formatting instructions can be found at
<http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>. Authors will be notified
via email on the results of the review by 20 December 2002. It is very
important that the email accompanying your submission should state ALL the
authors, including ALL their email addresses.

Authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of
the reviewers' comments and will be asked to send a camera-ready version of
their manuscripts by 17 January 2003. By submitting a camera-ready paper,
the author(s) agree that at least one author will attend and present each
accepted paper at the workshop.

The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS
series and will be available at the workshop.


Chairs
Emma Hart <e.hart@napier.ac.uk>
Martin Middendorf <mmi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>

Programme committee:

Andrea Tettamanzi (Italy)
Daniel Merkle (Germany)
Daniel Borrajo (Spain)
Peter Ross (UK)
Ben Paechter (UK)
John Levine (UK)
Peter Swann (UK)