EvoSTIM2001 - Call for papers

Second European Workshop on Scheduling and Timetabling

Scheduling and Timetabling are amongst the most successful applications of evolutionary techniques.

EvoSTIM2001 is the second European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation to scheduling and timetabling, following on from the successful EvoSTIM 2000 held in Edinburgh in April 2000.

It gives European and non-European researchers in those fields an opportunity to present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications. It is also an opportunity to meet with other researchers and industrialists working in the same field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Case studies of applications of evolutionary techniques to real-life problems in scheduling and timetabling
• 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

Accepted papers

Organizing Commitee

EvoSTIM chair

• Emma Hart
  emmah@dcs.napier.ac.uk
  School of Computing
  Napier University
  219 Colinton Road
  Edinburgh
  EH14 1DJ
  Scotland, UK

Programme committee

• Agoston E Eiben, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Emma Hart, Napier University, UK
• Martin Middendorf, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
• Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK
• Peter Swann, Rolls Royce plc, UK
• Andrea G B Tettamanzi, Genetica, Italy
• Peter Ross, Napier University, UK

EvoWorkshops chair

• Stefano Cagnoni, University of Parma, Italy, cagnoni@ce.unipr.it

Local chairs

• Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, lanzi@elet.polimi.it
• Andrea Tettamanzi, University of Milan, Italy, tettaman@dsi.unimi.it

Submissions

To submit, send your manuscript (recmended length 10 A4 pages, Postscript format) to the programme preferebly by email to the EvoSTIM chair (see below) with the subject line "SUBMISSION EVOSTIM2001" no later than November 16, 2000. If submitting by post send 4 paper copies to the programme chair at the address below. The papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. Authors will be notified via email on the results of the review by December 20, 2000.

The authors of accepted papers will be asked 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 January 25, 2001.

Papers will appear in the EvoWorkshops2001 proceedings to be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, formatting instructions for which can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. As with previous years the proceedings will be published both in book form and electronically. Therefore accepted camera ready papers must be accompanied by electronic (machine readable) source documents.

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.