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: 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 […]
Football Fixture Scheduling: Another Project
Over the past nine months or so I have been working with a local company who provides an online service to schedule various types of sporting events. They contacted me after seeing my contact details on wikipedia (which was a nice way to be contacted). The company need to produce double round robin tournaments but […]
MISTA Conference: Venue for 2011 announced
MISTA 2009 finished in the time honoured fashion of a social day. On this occasion it was a cruise down the River Liffey, followed by a two hour guided tour around Dublin, ending up at Trinity College Dublin (which, strangley enough is where MISTA 2009 started as it was the first place we visited when […]
MISTA Conference: Plenary Talk (Edmund Burke)
The MISTA conference had two plenary talks today (Raymond Kwan – see earlier blog) and Edmund Burke. Edmund’s talk was entitled A Comparison of Two Methods for Reducing Take-Off Delay at London Heathrow Airport and focussed on his work (and Jason Atkin and John Greenwood) that investigates scheduling aircraft at Heathrow in preparation for take […]
MISTA Conference: Plenary Talk (Moshe Dror)
The MISTA conference is now well underway, after a busy morning. Our first plenary talk was by Prof. Moshe Dror (University of Arizona) and co-authored with George Steiner. His talk was entitled ‘Strong’-‘Weak’ Precedence in Scheduling: Extended Order Implications.The picture shows Prof. Dror’s talk.
MISTA Conference: Almost There
The MISTA conference is almost upon us. It was an early start this morning (3am) in order to get to Dublin on the 06:35 flight out of East Midlands Airport. We were actually in the hotel by 09:00 and, thankfully, they had rooms ready so it was not too bad. We spent the day getting […]
MISTA Conference: Program
With the MISTA conference just a week away (this time next week we’ll be in the Guinness Storehouse for the reception) we have just released the scientific program. The list of papers is available at http://www.mistaconference.org/2009/programme/index.html A PDF (more detailed) version can be downloaded from the same page (see the link at the top of […]
MISTA Conference: Proceeedings
I wonder if there is a good (and I mean simple) way to produce conference proceedings? In a previous post, I was talking about the MISTA conference that I chair and that we were in the process of collecting all the papers and registrations. This is now done and, with the conference just a week […]
MISTA Conference
Since 2003 I have chaired the Multidiscplinary Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA). The first conference (2003) was held in Nottingham, the second (2005) was held in New York and the third conference (2007) took place in Paris. The 2009 conference (the 4th in the series) is due to take place in Dublin (10th […]