The 7th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
Université de Montréal, August 18 - 22, 2008
, 18 — 22 August 2008
PATAT 2008 
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This conference is the seventh 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/patat/patat-index.shtml.
The themes of the conference include (but are not limited to):
- Educational Timetabling
- Transport Timetabling
- Employee Timetabling and Rostering
- Sports Timetabling
- Complexity Issues
- Distributed Timetabling Systems
- Experiences
- Implementations
- Commercial Packages
- Interactive vs Batch Timetabling
- Timetable Updating
- Standard Data Formats
- Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems
- Timetabling Research Areas, including:
Constraint-Based Methods Operational Research Hyper-Heuristics Evolutionary Computation Simulated Annealing Very Large Neighborhood Search Artificial Intelligence Local Search Graph Colouring Mathematical Programming Ant Colony Methods Hybrid Methods Expert Systems Soft Computing Multi-Criteria Decision Making Heuristic Search Tabu Search Fuzzy Reasoning Knowledge Based Systems Meta-Heuristics
Featured Keynote Speakers
- Michael O. Ball (University of Maryland, USA)
- Patrick De Causmaecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Gilles Pesant (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)
- Erwin Pesch (Universität Siegen, Germany)
Organizing and Programme Committees co-chairs
Michel Gendreau
CIRRELT/CRT
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville
Montreal (Quebec)
Canada H3C 3J7
michel.gendreau@cirrelt.caekb@cs.nott.ac.uk