An Evaluation of Certain Heuristic Optimization Algorithms in Scheduling Medical Doctors and Medical Students
Four heuristic algorithms based on or inspired by the well-known Tabu Search method have been used to cast heuristically optimized schedules for a clinical training unit of a hospital. It has been found experimentally that the algorithm of choice for this
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Edmund K. Burke Hana Rudová (Eds.)
Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI 6th International Conference, PATAT 2006 Brno, Czech Republic,August 30–September 1, 2006 Revised Selected Papers
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Volume Editors Edmund K. Burke University of Nottingham School of Computer Science Jubilee Campus, Nottingham NG8 2BB, UK E-mail: [email protected] Hana Rudová Masaryk University Faculty of Informatics Botanická 68a, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth International 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 together researchers and practitioners from across the broad spectrum of inter-disciplinary research activity in search methodologies for automated timetable generation. This includes university timetabling, school timetabling, personnel rostering, tran
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