ITC2007 - Second International Timetabling Competition
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**Announcing ITC2007: the second International Timetabling Competition**
Educational Timetabling problems have stimulated innovative scientific advances at the interface of operational research and artificial intelligence since the 1960's. This competition provides a forum for researchers from many different backgrounds to apply existing leading edge techniques and try out exciting new ones within a competitive framework.
This announcement should appeal to anyone interested in a computing challenge which is very much a combination of theory and practice. Potential competitors should read this information carefully and put their timetabling cap on!
The second International Timetabling Competition is to begin on the 1st of August 2007 and end on the 25th January 2008. The organisers are proud to announce that £1500 GBP (approximately US$3000 or EUR2500) has been allocated in prize money in addition to free registration at the PATAT 2008 conference in Montreal.
Building on the success of the first International Timetabling Competition which ran in 2002, ITC2007 aims to further develop interest in the general area of educational timetabling, while providing researchers with models of the problems faced within real-world organisations. The problem datasets and eventual results will be shared with the entire research community.
The competition, which has been divided into three tracks, deals with a number of main themes which exist in educational timetabling. Competitors can enter one, two or all of the tracks if they wish to. For more information please visit and register at the dedicated competition web page at
<http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/itc2007>
I, along with my fellow organisers, would be grateful if you could forward this email to anyone or group you feel may find it of interest. I look forward to meeting as many of the contestants as possible in Montreal 2008.
Kind regards,
Barry
Dr Barry McCollum
Educational Timetabling problems have stimulated innovative scientific advances at the interface of operational research and artificial intelligence since the 1960's. This competition provides a forum for researchers from many different backgrounds to apply existing leading edge techniques and try out exciting new ones within a competitive framework.
This announcement should appeal to anyone interested in a computing challenge which is very much a combination of theory and practice. Potential competitors should read this information carefully and put their timetabling cap on!
The second International Timetabling Competition is to begin on the 1st of August 2007 and end on the 25th January 2008. The organisers are proud to announce that £1500 GBP (approximately US$3000 or EUR2500) has been allocated in prize money in addition to free registration at the PATAT 2008 conference in Montreal.
Building on the success of the first International Timetabling Competition which ran in 2002, ITC2007 aims to further develop interest in the general area of educational timetabling, while providing researchers with models of the problems faced within real-world organisations. The problem datasets and eventual results will be shared with the entire research community.
The competition, which has been divided into three tracks, deals with a number of main themes which exist in educational timetabling. Competitors can enter one, two or all of the tracks if they wish to. For more information please visit and register at the dedicated competition web page at
<http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/itc2007>
I, along with my fellow organisers, would be grateful if you could forward this email to anyone or group you feel may find it of interest. I look forward to meeting as many of the contestants as possible in Montreal 2008.
Kind regards,
Barry
Dr Barry McCollum