Special Session on Evolutionary Planning and Scheduling in IEEE WCCI 2006

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

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********* CALL FOR PAPERS **********

Special Session on Evolutionary Planning and Scheduling IEEE World Congress
on Computational Intelligence Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
July 16th - 21st 2006
http://www.wcci2006.org/WCCI-Web_Special_Session.html


Organized by Keshav Dahal (k.p.dahal@bradford.ac.uk), Peter Cowling
(p.i.cowling@bradford.ac.uk), University of Bradford, UK.
URL: http://www.mosaic.ac/papers/call.php

Scope
Planning and scheduling problems occur where numerous activities compete for
scarce resources (including time). Real-word planning and scheduling
problems are generally complex, constrained and multi-objective in nature.
Typical examples of such planning and scheduling problems include project
planning/scheduling, production planning/scheduling, activities planning,
staff rostering, machine scheduling, timetabling, vehicle routing, resource
assignment, etc. A sustained research effort over recent years continues to
achieve many real world and theoretical successes in the development and
application of new techniques for solving planning and scheduling problems.
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 planning and scheduling problems, and new theoretical
developments. Topics of the interests include, but are not limited to, the
following:
- Planning and scheduling theory, practice and benchmarks for evolutionary
and meta-heuristic approaches
- Effective problem representations for evolutionary planning and scheduling
- Evaluation of quality of plans and schedules to use for evolutionary and
meta-heuristic scheduling
- Multi-objective evolutionary and meta-heuristic planning and scheduling
- Dynamic evolutionary and meta-heuristic planning and scheduling
- Planning and Scheduling under uncertainty using evolutionary and
meta-heuristic approaches
- Hybridization of evolutionary and meta-heuristic methods with other
approaches for planning and scheduling
- Real world applications of evolutionary/meta-heuristic approaches in
planning and scheduling
- Multi-disciplinary applications of evolutionary and meta-heuristic
planning and scheduling approaches

Important Dates
Paper Submission Jan. 31st 2006
Notification March 15th 2006
Final CRC submission April 15th 2006

For submission instructions please see
http://www.wcci2006.org/WCCI-Web_paper_submit.html

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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