August 18 - 22 2008
Université de Montréal, Canada

Selected papers from this conference will be published in a special issue of Annals of OR.

Here there is a full list of papers. A list of selected papers will be available in due course.

This conference is the seventh in a series of conferences that serve as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors 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
• Standard Data Formats
• Relationship with Other Scheduling Problems
• Timetabling Research Areas, including:
  • Constraint Based Methods
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Expert Systems
  • Graph Colouring
  • 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

Programme Committee:

Edmund Burke [co-chair]	University of Nottingham, UK
Michel Gendreau (co-chair)	Université de Montréal, Canada
Hesham Alfares	King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
Viktor Bardadym	Noveon Inc., Belgium
James Bean	University of Michigan, USA
Peter Brucker	University of Osnabrück, Germany
Peter Cowling	University of Bradford, UK
Patrick De Causmaecker	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Kathryn Dowsland	Gower Optimal Algorithms Ltd. UK
Wilhelm Erben	University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Alain Hertz	Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Jeffrey Kingston	University of Sydney, Australia
Raymond Kwan	University of Leeds, UK
Gilbert Laporte	HEC Montréal, Canada
Rhyd Lewis	Cardiff University, UK
Barry McCollum	Queen's University of Belfast, N. Ireland
Amnon Meisels	Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Keith Murray	Purdue University, USA
Ender Ozcan	Yeditepe University, Turkey
Ben Paechter	Napier University, 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
Louis-Martin Rousseau	École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Celso C. Ribeiro	Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Hana Rudova	Masaryk University, Czech Republic
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
Pascal Van Hentenryck	Brown 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