Call for Papers: Second Australian Workshop on
Intelligent Scheduling
July 13-17, 1998, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Workshop date: July 14, 1998
NEW: Revised submission deadline: June 25, 1998.
Background
- Scheduling, the task of assigning resources to activities in some
(ideally) optimal temporal sequence, is a ubiquitous and computationally
hard problem. Research in intelligent scheduling seeks solutions to this
problem through the applications of AI techniques such as
constraint-based reasoning which have been found to be effective in
real-world scheduling problems characterized by computational
intractability, the need to handle complex input knowledge and
multiple, often conflicting optimization criteria.
This workshop
seeks to provide a forum for highlighting and discussing research and
development efforts in this area, by bringing together
academic researchers and practitioners from industry. This will be the
second workshop in this series, following the success of the First
Australian Workshop on Intelligent Scheduling, organized at the
University of Wollongong in December 1997 (click here
for a program outline).
Areas of Interest/Workshop Goals
Both basic and applied research in the area of intelligent scheduling are of
interest to the workshop. Submissions are encouraged on all issues
concerning the design, development and practical deployment of intelligent
scheduling systems. A broad spectrum of AI technologies are of
interest,
including constraint-based techniques, knowledge-based systems
technologies, genetic algorithms, neural networks etc. Submissions
comparing such techniques with traditional operations research (OR)
techniques or discussing the integration of OR techniques in intelligent
scheduling systems are also welcome.
Workshop Format
This will be a one-day workshop and will include approximately eight to
ten 30
minute presentations based on the submitted papers. The workshop is
also likely to include invited presentations by distinguished
researchers in the area.
Submissions
Submissions are invited in the form of full papers with no more that 5000
words.
In the first instance, the submitted abstracts will be compiled
in the form of a University of Wollongong, Dept. of Business Systems
Technical Report. Depending on the nature and quality of submissions, a
more formal refereed academic publication may emerge from the workshop
proceedings.
For those who wish to participate without presenting their work, a brief
email message expressing interest would suffice.
Workshop Chair
Dr. Aditya K. Ghose,
Decision Systems Lab, Dept. of Business Systems, University of
Wollongong.
Organizing Committee
- A/Prof. Grigoris Antoniou,
School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University.
- Dr. Maurice Pagnucco,
Department of Computing, Macquarie University.
- A/Prof.
Joseph Davis, Decision Systems Lab,
Dept. of Business Systems, University of Wollongong.
- Dr. Abdul Sattar, School
of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University.
- Kuldeep Sandhu, School of Information Systems, Griffith University.
Please address all queries to:
Dr. Aditya K. Ghose
Department of Business Systems
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522 Australia
Email: aditya@uow.edu.au
Important Dates
- Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: June 25, 1998.
- Author notification: June 30, 1998.
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