Wednesday, 30th August - Friday, 1st September 2006
Brono, Czech Republic

Selected papers from this conference will be published in a post conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Here there is a full list of papers and a list of selected papers.

This conference served as a forum for an international community of researchers on all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation. The themes of the conference included:

• Educational Timetabling
• Transport Timetabling
• Employee Timetabling and Rostering
• Sports Timetabling
• Complexity Issues
• Distributed Timetabling Systems
• Experiences
• Implementations
• Commercial Packages
• Interactive vs Batch Timetabling
• Timetable Updating
• Data Models and Data Formats
• Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems
• Timetabling Research Areas, including:
  • Constraint Based Methods
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Graph Colouring
  • Expert Systems
  • Heuristic Search
  • Knowledge Based Systems
  • Operational Research
  • Simulated Annealing
  • Local Search
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Soft Computing
  • Tabu Search
  • Meta-Heuristics
  • Hyper-Heuristics
  • Very Large Neighborhood Search
  • Ant Colony Methods
  • Hybrid Methods
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Making
  • Fuzzy Reasoning
  • Combinatorial Optimisation

Programme Committee:

Edmund Burke [co-chair]	University of Nottingham, UK
Hana Rudová (co-chair)	Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Hesham Alfares	King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
Viktor Bardadym	Noveon Inc., Belgium
James Bean	University of Michigan, USA
Peter Brucker	University of Osnabrück, Germany
Michael Carter	University of Toronto, Canada
Peter Cowling	University of Bradford, UK
Patrick De Causmaecker	KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent, Belgium
Kathryn Dowsland	Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd. UK
Andreas Drexl	University of Kiel, Germany
Wilhelm Erben	FH Konstanz - University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Jacques A. Ferland	University of Montreal, Canada
Michel Gendreau	Centre de Recherche sur les Transports, Montréal, Canada
Alain Hertz	Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Jeffrey Kingston	University of Sydney, Australia
Raymond Kwan	University of Leeds, UK
Gilbert Laporte	Université de Montréal, Canada
Vahid Lotfi	University of Michigan-Flint, USA
Amnon Meisels	Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Thiruthlall Nepal	Durban Institute of Technology, South Africa
Jim Newall	eventMAP Ltd., UK
Ben Paechter	Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Gilles Pesant	Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Sanja Petrovic	University of Nottingham, UK
Jean-Yves Potvin	Université de Montréal, Canada
Rong Qu	University of Nottingham, UK
Andrea Schaerf	Università di Udine, Italy
Jan Schreuder	University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Jonathan Thompson	Cardiff University, UK
Paolo Toth	University of Bologna, Italy
Michael Trick	Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Greet Vanden Berghe	KaHo St.-Lieven, Belgium
Stefan Voss	University of Hamburg, Germany
Dominique de Werra	EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland
George White	University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael Wright	Lancaster University, UK
Jay Yellen	Rollins College, USA