Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI 6th International Conference, PATAT 2006 Brno, Czech Republic, August 30–September 1, 2006 Revised Selected Papers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burke, Edmund K. (Editor), Rudová, Hana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3867
• Subjects: Computer science.; Production management.; Computers.; Algorithms.; Numerical analysis.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.; Theory of Computation.; Operations Management.; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science.; Numeric Computing.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth Int- national Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT) which was organized in Brno, Czech Republic, from August 30 to September 1 of 2006. The PATAT conferences, which are held every 2 years, bring to...

Table of Contents:

• General Issues
• A Perspective on Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in University Timetabling
• Very Large-Scale Neighborhood Search Techniques in Timetabling Problems
• Measurability and Reproducibility in University Timetabling Research: Discussion and Proposals
• Employee Timetabling
• Physician Scheduling in Emergency Rooms
• A Flexible Model and a Hybrid Exact Method for Integrated Employee Timetabling and Production Scheduling
• Memes, Self-generation and Nurse Rostering
• An Evaluation of Certain Heuristic Optimization Algorithms in Scheduling Medical Doctors and Medical Students
• Timetabling of Meetings
• Scheduling Research Grant Proposal Evaluation Meetings and the Range Colouring Problem
• Sports Timetabling
• Constructive Algorithms for the Constant Distance Traveling Tournament Problem
• Scheduling the Brazilian Soccer Tournament with Fairness and Broadcast Objectives
• Referee Assignment in Sports Leagues
• A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Scheduling the Highly-Constrained Chilean Soccer Tournament
• Course Timetabling
• Modeling and Solution of a Complex University Course Timetabling Problem
• Timetabling Problems at the TU Eindhoven
• The Teaching Space Allocation Problem with Splitting
• Solving the University Timetabling Problem with Optimized Enrollment of Students by a Self-adaptive Genetic Algorithm
• School Timetabling
• A Case Study for Timetabling in a Dutch Secondary School
• Scheduling School Meetings
• Hierarchical Timetable Construction
• The KTS High School Timetabling System
• Examination Timetabling
• A Novel Fuzzy Approach to Evaluate the Quality of Examination Timetabling
• Linear Linkage Encoding in Grouping Problems: Applications on Graph Coloring and Timetabling
• Ant Algorithms for the Exam Timetabling Problem
• An Extensible Modelling Framework for Timetabling Problems
• An Experimental Study on Hyper-heuristics and Exam Timetabling.