evostim 2011 - 6th European Event on Nature-inspired Techniques in Scheduling, Planning and Timetabling

6th European Event on Nature-inspired Techniques in Scheduling, Planning and Timetabling
Scheduling, planning and timetabling problems are amongst the most successful applications of evolutionary techniques to date. A range of representations and operators may be applied to a wide spectrum of problems in this area. As this is a mature area, papers building on previous work and case studies on the acceptance and implementation of evolutionary scheduling, planning and timetabling systems in the real-world are welcome. evostim 2011 represents an opportunity for evolutionary computing researchers in the inter-related areas of planning, scheduling and timetabling to come together, present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications.

Areas of Interest and Contributions
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

case studies of applications of evolutionary techniques to real-life problems in scheduling, timetabling, and planning
theoretical developments, including benchmarking and other comparative studies
hybrid methods and novel heuristics
methods for fast and minimally disruptive rescheduling
dynamic scheduling, planning and timetabling
distributed scheduling, planning and timetabling
sequencing problems
scheduling and planning in industrial environments including production planning, transportation and distribution
educational course and exam timetabling
employee and workforce scheduling
organisation and resource scheduling
generation of plans and construction of planners
plan merging and decomposition of planning problems
handling multiple goals in scheduling and planning
planning under resource constraints
Publication Details
Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of evo*, published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at the Conference.

Submission Details
Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

submission link: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps11/
page limit: 10 pages

Important Dates
submission deadline: 22 november 2010
notification to authors: 7 january 2011
camera-ready deadline: 1 february 2011
evo* event: 27-29 april 2011

Programme Chairs
A. Şima Uyar
Electrical and Electronics Faculty
Computer Engineering Department
Istanbul Technical University
etaner(at)itu.edu.tr

Neil Urquhart
Centre for Emergent Computing
School Of Computing
Edinburgh Napier University
n.urquhart(at)napier.ac.uk