PATAT 2012: Practioners Welcome
The PATAT (Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference officially started today, although there was a social event yesterday. One of the innovative aspects of PATAT, which is reflected in the conference title, is that it attracts both academics and practitioners. The 2012 conference (the ninth in the conference series) has probably attracted more practitioners […]
PATAT 2012 Conference
I am just about to head off to the PATAT 2012 conference. This year it is in Oslo which would normally be a short hop from the UK but when you live in Malaysia it is a 15 hour flight! This is the 9th PATAT (Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference in the series, […]
Tracking Paper Downloads: Database
In my last post I outlined a few thoughts about tracking downloads of papers from the MISTA web site. Of course, the ideas can be used on any web site but I am particularly interested in MISTA at the moment. I have now started to develop the database, which will be a MySQL database which […]
Tracking Paper Downloads for MISTA
The fifth MISTA conference (www.mistaconference.org) has just taken place in Arizona. The web site, I think looks pretty good but there is a lot more that I would like to do with it. For example, I should have all the papers available for download and, over the next few months, I am going to put […]
PATAT 2010: Googlemaps and Multimaps
In an earlier PATAT conference blog I described the multi-objective methodology that I used. I finished by saying that in basing any methodology on travel distances between football clubs you have to somehow calcuate the distances between all the clubs (or at least those in the same division). When I first started collecting all this […]
PATAT 2010: Multi-objective Sports (Football) Scheduling
At the recent PATAT (8th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference I was fortunate enough to be invited to give a plenary presentation. My talk focussed on sports scheduling. Indeed, the title was “Scheduling Football (Soccer) Fixtures: Progress Made to Date and Future Challenges“. I focussed on the conflicting objectives […]
2010 Pac-Man Competition at CIG 2010
Last week I attended the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2010). This conference (it was actually a symposium in the early days) was started by Simon Lucas and myself in 2005. I also co-chaired the conference with Susil Louis in 2006. The conference has been run every year since 2005, with the […]
Summer Conferences
It’s been a busy couple of weeks as I have been attending two scientific conferences. Last week I was at the PATAT (Practise and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference in Belfast and I have just returned from the IEEE Conference on Computational Inetlligence in Games (CIG 2010) in Copenhagen. Both conferences consider very different areas […]
INFORMS 2010: Buenos Aires
I have just returned (well returning actually – I am at the airport) from the INFORMS conference in Buenos Aires. In fact, we stayed on a few days and a very good colleague of mine is Argentinian and we toured round the North of the country. The highlight, undoubtedly, being Iguazu Falls. They are spectacular […]
The 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games: Report
I have just spent the last week at the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computation Intelligence and Games in Milan (see last post). It has been an excellent week both from a scientific point of view and from a networking point of view (I have even added a few new facebook friends as a result of […]