Scheduling, planning and timetabling problems are amongst the most successful applications of evolutionary techniques to date. A range of representations and operators may be applied to a wide spectrum of problems in this area. As this is a mature area, papers building on previous work and case studies on the acceptance and implementation of evolutionary scheduling, planning and timetabling systems in the real-world are welcome. EvoSTIM2012 represents an opportunity for evolutionary computing researchers in the inter-related areas of planning, scheduling and timetabling to come together, present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• case studies of applications of evolutionary techniques to real-life problems in scheduling, timetabling, and planning
• theoretical developments, including benchmarking and other comparative studies
• hybrid methods and novel heuristics
• methods for fast and minimally disruptive rescheduling
• dynamic scheduling, planning and timetabling
• distributed scheduling, planning and timetabling
• sequencing problems
• scheduling and planning in industrial environments including production planning, transportation and distribution
• educational course and exam timetabling
• employee and workforce scheduling
• organisation and resource scheduling
• generation of plans and construction of planners
• plan merging and decomposition of planning problems
• handling multiple goals in scheduling and planning
• planning under resource constraints

Dates
Submission deadline: 30th November 2011
Notification of acceptance: 14th January 2012
Camera-ready paper 5th February 2012

Chairs
A. Şima Uyar Neil Urquhart
Electrical and Electronics Faculty Centre for Emergent Computing
Computer Engineering Department School Of Computing
Istanbul Technical University Edinburgh Napier University
etaner@itu.edu.tr n.urquhart@napier.ac.uk