Final call for papers - Evolutionary scheduling session at IEEE CEC 2005

["Keshav Dahal" <k.p.dahal@Bradford.ac.uk>]

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Final call for Papers - 'Evolutionary Scheduling' - A Special Session at
the 2005 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, September 2-5, 2005,
Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Scheduling problems occur where numerous activities compete for scarce
resources (including time). Real-word scheduling problems are generally
complex, constrained and multi-objective in nature. Typical examples of such
scheduling problems include production scheduling, staff rostering, project
scheduling, machine scheduling, timetabling, vehicle routing, resource
assignment, planning, etc. Recently, there has been a high research interest
in evolutionary, meta-heuristic and soft computing approaches for solving
scheduling problems. This session aims to attract papers on which report on
the application of techniques such as these, their refinement for addressing
particular scheduling problems, and new theoretical developments. Topics of
the interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Scheduling theory, practice and benchmarks for evolutionary and
meta-heuristic approaches
- Effective problem representations for evolutionary scheduling
- Evaluation of quality of schedules to use for evolutionary and
meta-heuristic scheduling
- Multi-objective evolutionary and meta-heuristic scheduling
- Dynamic evolutionary and meta-heuristic scheduling
- Scheduling under uncertainty using evolutionary and meta-heuristic
approaches
- Hybridization of evolutionary and meta-heuristic methods with
other approaches for scheduling
- Real world applications of evolutionary/meta-heuristic approaches
in scheduling
- Multi-disciplinary applications of evolutionary and meta-heuristic
scheduling approaches

Extended Submission Deadline: 18 April 2005
Provisional Notification: 19 May 2005
Camera-Ready Due: 11 June 2005

Paper Submission: Manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard
format of regular papers specified in CEC2005 with a maximum of 8 pages.
Instructions for preparing the paper are provided at http://www.cec2005.org.
Special session papers will be treated in the same way as regular papers and
included in the conference proceedings. Paper submission is only in PDF
format and online through the regular CEC2005 submission website
http://ieee-cis.org/conferences1/cec2005/upload.php .

Please contact the special session chairs Keshav Dahal
(K.P.Dahal@bradford.ac.uk) and Peter Cowling (P.I.Cowling@bradford.ac.uk)
for all enquiries.

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Dr Keshav Dahal
MOSAIC Research Centre
School of Informatics
University of Bradford
Richmond Road
Bradford, West Yorkshire
BD7 1DP,  UK
Web: www.mosaic.ac
E-mail: k.p.dahal@bradford.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 234019
Fax: +44 (0) 1274 233920