MISTA 2003 - Call for Papers

[Graham Kendall <gxk@Cs.Nott.AC.UK>]

     The 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: 
                        Theory and Applications (MISTA)


Tuesday 12th to Saturday 16th August 2003, hosted by The University of
Nottingham, UK
This conference is the first in a series of conferences that serve as a
forum for an 
international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all
aspects of
multi-disciplinary scheduling. The conference will cover, but not be
limited to, the
following disciplines: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science,
Engineering,
Management, Manufacturing, Mathematics and Operational Research. The aim
is to bring
together scheduling researchers and practitioners from all the
disciplines that engage 
with scheduling research.

On Tuesday (12th) - there is a separate tutorial day (see the below for
more details).

The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to): 

* Commercial Packages
* Automated Reasoning
* Timetabling
* Constraint Logic Programming
* Evolutionary Algorithms
* Rostering
* Knowledge-Based Systems
* Heuristic Search
* Real-Time Scheduling
* Local Search
* Shop-Floor Scheduling
* Multi-processor Scheduling
* Transport Scheduling
* Process Scheduling
* Complexity of Scheduling Problems
* Rule-Based Expert Systems
* Real World Scheduling
* Sports Scheduling
* Production Scheduling
* Vehicle Routing
* Machine Scheduling
* Meta-heuristic Search
* Batch Scheduling
* Theoretical Scheduling
* Applications
* Delivery Scheduling




Submitting to MISTA
-------------------

Authors are invited to submit papers in one of two categories: 

(a) Full Papers:

Authors should submit papers describing significant, original and
unpublished work.
Six (hard) copies of the paper should be submitted by January 24th 2003
to the address
below. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
The authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to submit their
papers to 
a second round of refereeing so that their papers can be considered for
a
post-conference volume to be published by Kluwer. 
This can either be the same paper as was submitted to the conference or
an updated 
version in the light of comments received or new work undertaken.
Papers should be formatted following the guidelines given on the web
site
(not available at the time this document went to press).

(b) Abstracts :

Authors can submit abstracts of up to 2 pages (formatted in the same way
as for
the full papers) to the address below. Six (hard) copies of the abstract
should be
submitted by January 24th 2003. Abstracts will be fully refereed. The
abstracts will
not go forward to the second round of refereeing for the post-conference
volume.
However, authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to
write a paper
(based on their abstract) and submit it for the selected papers volume
at a later
date (shortly after the conference). People who wish to give a talk
(e.g. practitioners, researchers with incomplete work) but do not want
to write an
academic paper can submit under this category. Accepted abstracts will
be published
in the conference proceedings.

All submissions should include a cover page which clearly states: 

* The title of the paper
* Names, affiliations and EMAIL addresses of the authors
* Who is the corresponding author
* Keywords (chosen from the above list, where possible)
* The category of submission (full paper or abstract) 

Submit To:

Alison Payne (MISTA)
Automated Scheduling and Planning Research Group
School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB. United Kingdom


Important Dates:

Deadline for Paper Submission           :       24th January 2003
Referees Comments Returned to Authors   :       30th April 2003
Camera Ready Deadline                   :       30th June 2003
Early Registration Deadline             :       30th June 2003
Conference                              :       Tuesday 12th - Saturday
16th August 2003


Conference Web Page
-------------------

For latest/more information see:

http://www.mistaconference.org




International Advisory Committee
--------------------------------

* Graham Kendall (Chair), The University of Nottingham, UK
* Abdelhakim Artiba, Facultes Universitares Catholiques de Mons (CREGI -
FUCAM), Belguim
* Jacek Blazewicz, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of
Technology, Poland
* Peter Brucker, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
* Edmund Burke, The University of Nottingham, UK
* Xiaoqiang Cai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
* Ed Coffman, Columbia University, USA
* Moshe Dror, The University of Arizona, USA
* David Fogel, Natural Selection Inc., USA
* Fred Glover, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, USA
* Bernard Grabot, Laboratoire Gnie de Production - Equipe Production
Automatise, France
* Claude Le Pape, ILOG, France
* Toshihide Ibaraki, Kyoto University, Japan
* Mike Pinedo, New York University, USA
* Ibrahim Osman, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
* Jean-Yves Potvin, Universit de Montreal, Canada
* Michael Trick,Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie
Mellon University, USA
* Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Steef van de Velde, Erasmus University, Netherlands
* George White, University of Ottawa, Canada 


Program Committee
-----------------

Abdelhakim Artiba, Belguim
Belarmino Adenso-Diaz, Spain
Michael Bender USA
Jacek Blazewicz, Poland
Joachim Breit, Germany
Peter Brucker, Germany
Edmund Burke, UK
Xiaoqiang Cai, Hong Kong
Edwin Cheng, Hong Kong
Ed Coffman, USA
Costas P.Pappis, Greece
Peter Cowling, UK
Patrick De Causmaecker, Belgium
Mauro Dell'Amico, Italy
Erik Demeulemeester, Belgium
Kath Dowsland, UK
Andreas Drexl, Germany
Moshe Dror, USA
Maciej Drozdowski, Poland
Janet Efstathiou, UK
Wilhelm Erben, Germany
Gerd Finke, Grenoble, France
Peter Fleming, UK
David Fogel, USA
Dalibor Froncek, USA
Celia A. Glass, UK
Fred Glover, USA
Bernard Grabot, France
Alain Guinet, France
Jin-Kao Hao, France
Martin Henz, Singapore
Jeffrey Herrmann, USA
Willy Herroelen, Belgium
Han Hoogeveen, The Netherlands
Toshihide Ibaraki, Japan
Graham Kendall, UK
Jeffrey H. Kingston, Australia
Hiroshi Kise, Japan
Mitsuru Kuroda, Japan
Raymond Kwan, UK
Claude Le Pape, France
Chung-Yee Lee, Hong Kong 
Arne Lkketangen, Norway
Dirk C. Mattfeld, Germany
David Montana, USA
Martin Middendorf, Germany
Alexander Nareyek, USA
Bryan A. Norman, USA
Ibrahim Osman, Lebanon
Erwin Pesch, Germany
Sanja Petrovic, UK
Mike Pinedo, USA
Chris Potts, UK
Christian Prins, France
Jean-Yves Potvin, Canada
Kirk Pruhs, USA
Vic J. Rayward-Smith, UK
Colin Reeves, UK
Andrea Schaerf, Italy
Guenter Schmidt, Germany
Wolfgang Slany, Austria 
Stephen Smith, USA
Vincent T'Kindt, France
Jonathan Thompson, UK
Michael Trick, USA
Edward Tsang, UK
Steef van de Velde, Netherlands
Greet Vanden Berghe, Belgium
Stefan Voss, Germany
Jan Weglarz, Poland
Dominique de Werra, Switzerland 
George White, Canada
Gerhard J Woeginger, The Netherlands
Yakov Zinder, Australia






=== TUTORIAL DAY ====

On Tuesday 12th August 2003, in conjunction with the MISTA conference,
we will be holding a tutorial day that will allow leading reseachers to
present some of the modern optimization techniques that are being used
today. We expect each tutorial to last about 2 hours. The tutorials are
being aimed at a level applicable to students in the first year of their
PhD and, as such, will be applicable to many people including those from
industry, researchers who do not work in this field but who wish to find
out more about these techniques, as well as those working in the field
who, perhaps, need a refresher. We are still in the planning stages but
we expect the day to be split into a number of streams but there will be
a publication which covers all the tutorials that are given. This
publication, we expect, to be available on the day.


Places will be limited, so early booking is essential. If you would like
to be placed on a mailing list, for when the we have more details about
the event, please send an EMAIL to Graham Kendall, who will keep in
touch with you. People who register early will be given the option to
book first (before the main event is open to general registration).

The confirmed speakers/authors so far are

1.Emile Aarts, Simulated Annealing 
2.Dipankar Dasgupta : Artificial Immune Systems 
3.Kalyanmoy Deb : Multi-objective Optimization 
4.Eugene Freuder : Constraint Reasoning 
5.Michel Gendreau : Tabu Search 
6.David Goldberg : Genetic Algorithms 
7.Pierre Hansen : Variable Neighborhood Search 
8.John Koza & Ricardo Poli : Genetic Programming 
9.Roman Slowinski : Rough Sets 
10.Mike Trick : Integer Programming 
11.Darrell Whitley : Complexity Theory and The No Free Lunch Theorem 
12.Xin Yao : Machine Learning