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Advance Warning:


                                   ICPTAT'95

                          1st International Conference
              on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

                Tuesday 29th August - Friday 1st September 1995

                        Napier University, Edinburgh, UK


The  scope  of  this  conference  is  anything  related  to  the computer-aided
generation  of timetables.  The conference  is currently  being organised.  The
purpose  of this early notification  is to give  plenty of time  to think about
preparing a paper for it.  The official call for papers  will be made on Jan 15
1995,  and extended abstracts must be submitted by March 31 1995.  If you don't
feel you could contribute a full paper, you could submit a poster presentation.

The conference will take place  during the World-famous Edinburgh Festival,  so
the whole city  will be laying on  entertainment!  Napier University will  take
care of accommodation.

Some themes of the conference:

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

All papers  will appear  in a refereed  Conference Proceedings.  The organisers
expect to publish this as a book after the conference.

For more information, contact:
   Dr Edmund Burke
   E-mail:  ekb@cs.nott.ac.uk
   Phone:   +44 115 951 4206
