Announcing ITC2007, the second
International Timetabling Competition
sponsored by PATAT and WATT
Anyone interested in a computing challenge which is very much a combination of theory and practice should read this information carefully and put their timetabling cap on!
Building on the success of the first, this competition aims to further develop interest in the general area of educational timetabling while providing researchers with models of the problems faced which incorporate an increased number of real world constraints.
The competition is divided into three tracks with the winner of each track receiving £500 pounds prize money and free registration to PATAT in Montreal 2008.
As with the first competition, it is stressed from the outset that the winner will be chosen based on effectiveness of a particular technique in a specified time. Although this is not an important 'real world' constraint, a time limit allows a competitive element to be introduced which, hopefully, will attract researchers from multiple disciplines.
A main objective of the competition is that conclusions drawn will further stimulate debate within the widening timetabling research community.
The overall aim of the competition is to create better understanding between researchers and practitioners by allowing emerging techniques to be trialed and tested on real world models of timetabling problems.
The Competition is organised and run by the eventMAP research Group at Queen’s University with partners from Cardiff University, Napier University, University of Nottingham and the University of Udine.
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