Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV 4th International Co
Thisvolumecontainsaselectionofpapersfromthe4thInternationalConference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002) held in Gent, August 21–23, 2002. Since the ?rst conference in Edinburgh in 1995, the range of timetabling applications
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Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV 4th International Conference, PATAT 2002 Gent, Belgium, August 21-23, 2002 Selected Revised Papers
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Series Editors Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Volume Editors Edmund Burke The University of Nottingham School of Computer Science and Information Technology Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK E-mail: [email protected] Patrick De Causmaecker Information Technology, KaHo St.-Lieven Gent, Belgium E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the Internet at .
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Preface This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002) held in Gent, August 21–23, 2002. Since the first conference in Edinburgh in 1995, the range of timetabling applications at the conferences has become broader and more diverse. In the selected papers volume from the 1995 conference, there were just two contributions (out of 22) which did not specifically address school and university timetabling. In the selected papers volume from the 1997 conference in Toronto, the number of papers which tackled non-educational problems increased. Two of the papers addressed more than one timetabling application. In both of these papers, educational applications were considered in addition to other applications. A further three papers were concerned with non-educational applications. The conference steering and programme committees have worked hard to attract a wid
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