EXTENDED DEADLINE: EvoSTIM/PLAN 2003

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

(apologies for multiple copies)

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     THE DEADLINE FOR PAPERS FOR EVOSTIM/PLAN HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO
             30th NOVEMBER 2002

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>                                                    CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
>                                                       EvoSTIM2003
>                               5th European Workshop on 
> Scheduling and Timetabling
>   
>                                    Part of EuroGP 
> 2003/EvoWorkshops 2003
>                                                 14-16th April 
> 2003, Essex, UK
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> http://evonet.dcs.napier.ac.uk/eurogp2003/evostim.html        
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> 
> (previous workshops: Göteborg, Sweden, 1999 ,Edinburgh, UK, 
> 2000, Lake Como, Italy, 2001, Kinsale, Ireland, 2002)
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Chairs
> Emma Hart <e.hart@napier.ac.uk>
> Martin Middendorf <mmi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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> Programme committee
> To be announced