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                                  PATAT'97

                          The 2nd international conference
              on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling

                Wednesday 20th August - Friday 22nd August 1997

                        University of Toronto, Canada


A lot of people have been asking for extensions to the deadline given
in the original call for papers for this conference. This has been granted
in all cases and the Steering Committee have decided that the deadline
extension should be made public. The original call for papers is included at
the end of this e-mail. The deadline for abstract submissions (not paper
submissions) has been extended to 7th March 1997. It should also be
pointed out that although accepted abstracts will not be going through into
the second round of refereeing for the Springer volume there will be an
opportunity to expand accepted abstracts into a full paper which can be
submitted for this second round. These submissions will take place
shortly after the conference itself.

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS

                                  PATAT'97 

                          The 2nd international conference
              on the Practice And Theory of Automated Timetabling

                Wednesday 20th August - Friday 22nd August 1997

                        University of Toronto, Canada 

This conference is the second in a series of conferences that serve as
a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and
vendors on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation. For more
information about the series of conferences see

http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/ASAP/ttg/patat.html

The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):

   o  Complexity issues
   o  Distributed timetabling systems
   o  Experiences
   o  Implementations
   o  Commercial packages
   o  Interactive vs batch timetabling
   o  Relationship with other scheduling problems
   o  Techniques, including: Constraint Logic Programming
			     Genetic Algorithms
                             Graph Colouring
                             Expert Systems
                             Knowledge Based Systems
                             Operational Research
                             Simulated Annealing
                             Tabu-search

Submissions are welcomed from all areas of automated timetabling (including
transport scheduling, nurse scheduling, sports scheduling etc).

Submissions that deal with practical issues are particularly welcomed.


Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit presentations in one of two categories:

(a) Full Papers

Authors should submit papers describing significant, original
and unpublished work.

Four (hard) copies of the paper should be submitted by January 15th 1997
to Dr E.K.Burke at the address below. We expect the length of the final
papers to be no more than 8000 words. 

These papers will be fully refereed by the programme committee
and the accepted ones will appear in a conference proceedings.
A selection of the papers will appear in a post conference procedings
published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

(b) Abstracts

Authors can submit abstracts of up to 1000 words to Dr E.K.Burke.
Four (hard) copies of the abstract should be submitted by March 7th 1997.
Abstracts will be fully refereed. The accepted ones will
appear in the conference proceedings. However, the abstracts will not go
forward to the second round of refereeing for the post-conference volume.
People who wish to give a talk (e.g.  practitioners, researchers with
incomplete work) but do not want to write an academic paper can submit
under this category.

All submissions should include a cover page which
states clearly:

             (1) the names of the authors
             (2) the contact person and address
             (3) e-mail address (if you have one)
             (4) Keywords
 	     (5) The category of submission (full paper or abstract)


The keywords should mention the relevant conference themes listed above
(if this is possible).

Deadlines:

   paper/abstract submissions                     January 15th 1997
   notification of acceptance                     April 1st (at the latest)

About the Venue:

	Metropolitan Toronto is a clean, safe, cosmopolitan city with a
wonderful network of parks, recreational, and cultural facilities.
Toronto is the home of four professional sports teams and the third
largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, behind New York
and London. One of the world's most ethnically diverse cities, it is
home to more than 80 ethnic communities from Africa, Asia, and
Europe. Toronto is also the business centre of Canada.  Check out some of 
the many Web sites that contain information about the city through:

	http://www.math.toronto.edu/toronto/

   Ontario's beautiful natural settings are home to all kinds of leisure 
activity. Summertime brings swimming, boating, baseball, hiking, camping, 
fishing, and tennis. You can tour Ontario over an excellent highway network. 
You can also see Ontario by boat, with many scheduled cruises on beautiful 
lakes and rivers. And you won't want to miss Niagara Falls, one of the 
world's natural wonders. Rail touring is another option, travelling through 
canyons like Algoma to see the fall colours or visiting the beautiful far 
north. You can visit attractions throughout the province, from country fairs 
and museums to zoos, floral gardens, theme parks, and special events. For 
more information about things to see and do in Ontario, write to 

   Ontario Travel Information
   Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism
   77 Bloor Street West, 9th Floor
   Toronto, ON M7A 2C1
   (416)314-0944
   1-800-668-2746  (Canada and U.S.A.) 

and check out the web site at:

	http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS

Programme Committee:

  Edmund Burke (co-chair) University of Nottingham, UK
  Mike Carter (co-chair)  University of Toronto, Canada
  Victor Bardadym         International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine
  Patrice Boizumault      Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
  Dave Corne              University of Reading, UK
  Andrew Cumming          Napier University, UK
  Kath Dowsland		  University of Wales - Swansea, UK
  Marco Dorigo            Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Belgium
  Wilhelm Erben           Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany
  Jacques Ferland         University of Montreal, Canada
  Alain Hertz             EPFL, Switzerland
  Jeff Kingston           University of Sydney, Australia
  Fumio Kitagawa          Okayama University of Science, Japan
  Gilbert Laporte         Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, Canada
  Henri Luchian           AL. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
  Ben Paechter            Napier University, UK
  Peter Ross              University of Edinburgh, UK
  Jan Schreuder           University of Twente, The Netherlands
  Jonathan Thompson       University of Wales - Swansea, UK
  Rupert Weare            Cap Gemini UK PLC, UK
  George White            University of Ottawa, Canada
  Anthony Wren            University of Leeds, UK

For more information, contact:

Dr E.K.Burke
Department of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK

e-mail: ekb@cs.nott.ac.uk


