[Posgrados-invop] Fwd: Middle instances from ITC 2019 International Timetabling Competition

[Hector Cancela]

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Asunto: 	Middle instances from ITC 2019 International Timetabling 
Competition
Fecha: 	Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:41:34 +0200
De: 	Hana Rudova <hanka at FI.MUNI.CZ>
Responder a: 	Hana Rudova <hanka at FI.MUNI.CZ>
Para: 	MODERN-HEURISTICS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK




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    ITC 2019: International Timetabling competitionhttps://www.itc2019.org
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    NEWS*

      * *Middle instances are published!*
          o 10 other real-world instances available now
          o see characteristics at https://www.itc2019.org/middle-instances
      * *Current status*
          o winners for two milestones announced with the total costs
            <https://www.itc2019.org/#results> of the best solution for
            each of the early instances
            <https://www.itc2019.org/early-instances>
          o 174 registered users from 51 countries
          o 18 users successfully verified their solutions
      * *What next?*
          o late instances to be published on November 8
          o final submission by November 18
          o papers welcomed for the special track about the competition
            at PATAT <http://www.patatconference.org> 2020: open to any
            work related to the competition problems

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    ***UNIVERSITY COURSE TIMETABLING COMPETITION*

      * Assignment of times and rooms to events
      * Student sectioning based on course demands
      * Optimization by minimizing penalties of
          o time and room assignments,
          o violated soft constraints,
          o student conflicts
      * Course structure for student sectioning
      * Rooms with travel times and unavailabilities
      * Events not meeting every week

    ***RICH REAL-WORLD DATA INSTANCES*

      * Diverse characteristics
      * 10 institutions from five continents
      * Early, middle and late instances, 10 instances each
      * Data collected from the UniTime educational scheduling system

    ***NO TIME OR TECHNOLOGY LIMITATIONS*

      * Commercial solvers allowed
      * Looking for the best solutions
      * Solution validator as a web service

    *WINNERS*

      * Five finalists, prices for the first three
          o 1000, 500, 250 EUR
      * Free PATAT 2020 registrations
      * Awards supported by
          o PATAT conference
          o EWG PATAT
      * Award for the best open source solver
          o 500 USD
          o Award provided by Apereo Foundation
      * Awards for winners of late instances
          o 150 EUR per instance
          o Awards provided by ORTEC
      * Points awarded for each instance
      * More points for later instances

    ***PATAT 2020 CONFERENCE*

      * A special track about the competition
      * Winners announced
      * Journal special issue

    ***IMPORTANT DATES

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    September 18, 2019 	Middle instances published
    November 8, 2019 	Late instances published
    November 18, 2019 	Final submission
    January 1, 2020 	Open source solvers publication
    January 15, 2020
    	Finalists published
    February-March, 2020 	PATAT 2020 submissions
    August, 2020 	Winners announced at PATAT 2020
    Autumn, 2020 	Journal special issue

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    **AFTER THE COMPETITION*

      * The ITC 2019 website remains available
      * Tracking the best-known solutions and related papers

    *****SPONSORS*

      * Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling
        (PATAT)
      * ORTEC: optimization software and analytics solutions
      * Apereo Foundation: supporting open-source software for higher
        education
      * EURO working group on Automated Timetabling (EWG PATAT)
      * UniTime educational scheduling system
      * Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University

    ***ORGANIZERS*

      * Tomas Muller, Purdue University, UniTime, s.r.o.
      * Hana Rudova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
      * Zuzana Mullerova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
        UniTime, s.r.o.

    See https://www.itc2019.org for more details.


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