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                           <<  TTP  >>


TTP is an international mailgroup for anyone involved in automated timetabling.
Its purpose is discussion, queries and sharing and comparing ideas and info on
timetabling problems, ie. exam scheduling and course scheduling for academic
institutions.

Possible subjects for discussion include:

  o Techniques, including:
      - graph colouring
      - constraint logic programming
      - simulated annealing
      - expert systems
      - genetic algorithms
  o Standardisation (of data format, test problems, evaluation methods, etc.)
  o Complexity Issues
  o Timetable Constraints -- what and how important are they?
  o Unification of Exam and Course Timetabling
  o Implementations

There is an anonymous FTP area which supports the mailing list.  It contains
probably the most complete timetabling bibliographies in the World, e-mail
addresses of people working in timetabling, and an archive of discussions from
the mailgroup.

There is also a World-Wide Web page about this mailing list at
http://tawny.cs.nott.ac.uk/ttg/ttp.html

For more information, or to subscribe, please e-mail  ttp-request@cs.nott.ac.uk


Kirk Jackson   (mailgroup manager)
