PATAT Conference 2024
About PATAT 2024
14th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
The conference will run from Tuesday 27th August until Friday 30th August 2024. The venue will be at the Technical University of Denmark, which offers an excellent setting for researchers and practitioners to reflect, present and discuss on the substantial timetabling research.
We look forward to welcoming both experienced timetablers and students who recently joined timetabling research. Registrations are open until August 19th 2024.
Conference Topics
Topics of interest and themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:
- Educational Timetabling
- Timetabling in Transport
- Employee Rostering - Sports Timetabling
- Timetabling in Healthcare
- Mathematical Programming
- Constraint-Based Methods
- Knowledge Based Systems
- Heuristic Search
- Metaheuristics (e.g., Evolutionary Computation, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Ant Colony Methods)
- Systems to Build Systems (e.g., Hyper-heuristics, Algorithm Portfolios)
- Algorithm Configuration
- Artificial Intelligence
- Trustworthiness, Fairness and Ethical Issues in Timetabling
- Graph Colouring
- Resource Capacity Planning
- Parallel/Distributed Computing
- Hybrid Methods (e.g., Memetic Computing, Matheuristics)
- Machine Learning (e.g., Data Mining, Classifier Systems, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, GFlowNets))
- Expert Systems
- Multi-objective Approaches
- Multi-criteria Decision Making
- Preference Collection and Elicitation in Timetabling
- Foundational Studies (e.g., Complexity Issues)
- Timetabling Tools and Technologies (e.g., Web Applications, Interactive and Batch Systems, Standard Data Formats, Ontologies, Experiences, Libraries)
Important dates
Paper Submission Deadline |
Tuesday the 2nd of April 2024 (Expired) |
Notification of Acceptance |
Friday the 24th of May 2024 |
Early Registration |
Thursday the 1st of August 2024 |
Camera Ready |
Monday the 24th of June 2024 |
Conference Begins |
Tuesday the 27th of August 2024 |
Conference Ends |
Friday the 30th of August 2024 |
Social Day |
Saturday the 31st of August 2024 |