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Call for papers - Annals of Operations Research

[We apologize for the inevitable multiple copies of this announcement.]

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Call for Papers:
Special Volume of Annals of Operations Research
on "Personnel Scheduling and Planning"
 
Guest Editors: Sanja Petrovic and Greet Vanden Berghe
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In recent years there has been an increased recognition of the importance and complexity of 
personnel scheduling and planning problems in a wide range of organisations. Papers are called for 
a special volume of Annals of Operations Research on "Personnel Scheduling and Planning" 
devoted to all aspects and research issues that arise in making decisions on size of personnel 
and in personnel scheduling. Both theoretical issues and application results are welcome.
Topics covered by the special volume may include, but are not restricted to, the following themes:

    *  Heuristics and meta-heuristics
    *  Knowledge-based approaches
    *  Constraint-based scheduling
    *  Multiobjective scheduling
    *  Multi-agent systems
    *  Distributed planning and scheduling
    *  Mathematical programming in scheduling

Potential authors are invited to submit manuscripts either via e-mail or by sending 4 hard-copies to the addresses 
indicated below. Refereeing and the selection of papers will be carried out according to the standards of the 
Annals of Operations Research. All submissions should include a title page containing title, author(s) names and 
affiliations, contact author, regular postal addresses, and e-mail addresses. Manuscripts can be sent to either 
of the guest editors:

Sanja Petrovic
University of Nottingham
School of Computer Science and IT
Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group
Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
UK
Email sxp@cs.nott.ac.uk
 
or	

Greet Vanden Berghe
KaHo Sint-Lieven
Information Technology
Gebr. Desmetstraat 1
9000 Gent
BELGIUM
Email greet.vandenberghe@kahosl.be

Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2004

Detailed instructions for authors can be found on the Web page of Annals of Operations Research:  
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0254-5330