hátha valakit érdekel ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- *** ITC 2019: International Timetabling Competition *** * https://www.itc2019.org * NEW UNIVERSITY COURSE TIMETABLING COMPETITION - Assignment of times and rooms to events - Student sectioning based on course demands - Optimization by minimizing penalties of -- time and room assignments, -- violated soft constraints, -- student conflicts - Course structure for student sectioning - Rooms with travel times and unavailabilities - Events not meeting every week RICH REAL-WORLD DATA INSTANCES - Diverse characteristics - 11 institutions from six continents - Early, middle and late instances, around 8-10 instances each - 6 test instances including large Purdue sets already available - Data collected from the UniTime educational scheduling system NO TIME OR TECHNOLOGY LIMITATIONS - Commercial solvers allowed - Looking for the best solutions - Solution validator as a web service MID-COMPETITION STANDINGS - Two milestones during the competition - Quality of the best solutions published - 300, 200, 100 EUR for the top three solvers WINNERS - Five finalists, prices for the first three -- 1000, 500, 250 EUR -- Free PATAT 2020 registrations - Awards supported by -- PATAT conference -- EWG PATAT - Points awarded for each instance -- More points for later instances - Additional prizes also provided during the run of the competition PATAT 2020 CONFERENCE - A special track about the competition - Winners announced - Journal special issue IMPORTANT DATES November 15, 2018: Early data instances are published February 1, 2019: 1st milestone submission June 1, 2019: 2nd milestone submission September 18, 2019: Middle instances published November 8, 2019: Late instances published November 18, 2019: Final submission January 15, 2020: Finalists published February-March, 2020: PATAT 2020 submissions August, 2020: Winners announced at PATAT 2020 Autumn, 2020: Journal special issue AFTER THE COMPETITION - The ITC 2019 website remains available - Tracking the best-known solutions and related papers SPONSORS - Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT) - EURO working group on Automated Timetabling (EWG PATAT) - UniTime educational scheduling system - Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University ORGANIZERS - Tomas Muller, Purdue University, UniTime LLC - Hana Rudova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University - Zuzana Mullerova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, UniTime LLC See <https://www.itc2019.org/> for more details. **********************************************************