jan sefranek fftennuddankaiifmphunibask second call papers demonstrations patat 2006 6th international conference practice theory automated timetabling httppatat06municz wednesday 30th august friday 1st september 2006 organized faculty informatics masaryk university international hotel brno czech republic news conferences available httppatat06municznews html conference sixth series conferences serve forum international community researchers practitioners vendors aspects computeraided timetable generation information series conferences see httpwwwasapcsnottacukpatatpatatindexshtml themes conference include limited educational timetabling transport timetabling employee timetabling rostering sports timetabling complexity issues distributed timetabling systems experiences implementations commercial packages interactive vs batch timetabling timetable updating standard data formats relationship scheduling problems timetabling research areas including constraintbased methods evolutionary computation artificial intelligence graph colouring expert systems heuristic search knowledge based systems operational research simulated annealing local search mathematical programming soft computing tabu search metaheuristics hyperheuristics large neighborhood search ant colony methods hybrid methods multicriteria decision making fuzzy reasoning featured keynote speakers conference michel gendreau centre de recheche sur les transports montre9al ca nada james orlin mit usa andrea schaerf universita di udine italy submissions authors invited submit presentations one three categories full papers authors submit papers describing significant original unpublished work papers expected approximately 1020 pages length guideline strict papers fully refereed programme committee accepted ones appear conference proceedings isbn 8021037261 previous years selection papers appear post conference volume published springer lecture notes computer science series second round refereeing volume take 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together source files documents written latex microsoft word sent cameraready paper case latex format usage please prepare figurespictures either eps encapsulated postscript epdf encapsulated pdf necessary vector graphics must remain resolution independent format deadlines paperabstractsystem submissions january 27th 2006 notification april 28th 2006 late st programme committee edmund burke cochair university nottingham uk hana rudove1 cochair masaryk university czech republic hesham alfares king fahd university saudi arabia viktor bardadym noveon inc belgium james bean university michigan usa peter brucker university osnabrfcck germany michael carter university toronto canada peter cowling university bradford uk patrick de causmaecker kaho stlieven gent belgium kathryn dowsland gower optimal algorithms ltd uk andreas drexl university kiel germany moshe dror university arizona usa wilhelm erben fh konstanz university applied sciences ger many jacques ferland university montreal canada michel gendreau centre de recherche sur les transports montre9a l canada alain hertz ecole polytechnique de montre9al canada jeffrey kingston university sydney australia raymond kwan university leeds uk gilbert laporte universite9 de montre9al canada vahid lotfi university michiganflint usa amnon meisels bengurion university beersheva israel thiruthlall nepal durban institute technology south africa jim newall eventmap ltd uk ben paechter napier university edinburgh uk gilles pesant ecole polytechnique de montre9al canada sanja petrovic university nottingham uk jeanyves potvin universite9 de montre9al canada rong qu university nottingham uk andrea schaerf universita di udine italy jan schreuder university twente enschede netherlands jonathan thompson cardiff university uk paolo toth university bologna italy michael trick carnegie mellon university usa greet vanden berghe kaho stlieven belgium stefan voss university hamburg germany dominique de werra epflausanne switzerland george white 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