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<td>Middle instances from ITC 2019 International Timetabling
Competition</td>
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<td>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:41:34 +0200</td>
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<td>Hana Rudova <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ"><hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ></a></td>
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<td>Hana Rudova <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ"><hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:MODERN-HEURISTICS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">MODERN-HEURISTICS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a></td>
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color="#f48a52"><font color="#f48a52"><font
size="+2"><font size="+3"><img
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alt="ITC 2019: International Timetabling
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color="#f48a52"><font size="+2"> </font></font><font
size="+1"><font size="+1"><font color="#f48a52"><a
href="https://www.itc2019.org"
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color="#f48a52">https://www.itc2019.org</font></a></font><br>
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NEWS</b></font><br>
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<li><b>Middle instances are published!</b></li>
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<li> 10 other real-world instances available now</li>
<li>see characteristics at <a
href="https://www.itc2019.org/middle-instances"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.itc2019.org/middle-instances</a></li>
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<li><b>Current status</b></li>
<ul>
<li>winners for two milestones announced with
the <a
href="https://www.itc2019.org/#results"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">total
costs</a> of the best solution for each of
the <a
href="https://www.itc2019.org/early-instances"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">early
instances</a><br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>174 registered users from 51 countries</li>
<li>18 users successfully verified their
solutions</li>
</ul>
<li><b>What next?</b></li>
<ul>
<li>late instances to be published on November 8<br>
</li>
<li>final submission by November 18</li>
<li>papers welcomed for the special track about
the competition at <a
href="http://www.patatconference.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">PATAT</a>
2020: open to any work related to the
competition problems<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<font color="#c2605d"> </font><font color="#c2605d"><b>
</b><b>UNIVERSITY COURSE TIMETABLING COMPETITION</b></font><br>
<ul>
<li>Assignment of times and rooms to events</li>
<li>Student sectioning based on course demands</li>
<li>Optimization by minimizing penalties of</li>
<ul>
<li>time and room assignments,</li>
<li>violated soft constraints,</li>
<li>student conflicts</li>
</ul>
<li>Course structure for student sectioning</li>
<li>Rooms with travel times and unavailabilities</li>
<li>Events not meeting every week</li>
</ul>
<b> </b><font color="#b2515f"><b>RICH REAL-WORLD
DATA INSTANCES</b></font><br>
<ul>
<li>Diverse characteristics</li>
<li>10 institutions from five continents</li>
<li>Early, middle and late instances, 10 instances
each</li>
<li>Data collected from the UniTime educational
scheduling system<br>
</li>
</ul>
<b> </b><font color="#a54460"><b>NO TIME OR
TECHNOLOGY LIMITATIONS</b></font><br>
<ul>
<li> Commercial solvers allowed</li>
<li>Looking for the best solutions</li>
<li>Solution validator as a web service<font
color="#983961"><br>
</font></li>
</ul>
<font color="#983961"> </font><font color="#843464"><b>WINNERS</b></font><br>
<ul>
<li> Five finalists, prices for the first three</li>
<ul>
<li>1000, 500, 250 EUR</li>
</ul>
<li>Free PATAT 2020 registrations</li>
<li>Awards supported by</li>
<ul>
<li>PATAT conference</li>
<li>EWG PATAT</li>
</ul>
<li>Award for the best open source solver</li>
<ul>
<li>500 USD</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Award provided by Apereo Foundation</li>
</ul>
<li>Awards for winners of late instances</li>
<ul>
<li>150 EUR per instance</li>
<li>Awards provided by ORTEC</li>
</ul>
<li>Points awarded for each instance</li>
<li>More points for later instances<br>
</li>
</ul>
<b> </b><font color="#702f66"><b>PATAT 2020
CONFERENCE</b></font><br>
<ul>
<li> A special track about the competition</li>
<li>Winners announced</li>
<li>Journal special issue<br>
</li>
</ul>
<b> </b><font color="#5e2a69"><b>IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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</b></font>
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<td valign="top">September 18, 2019</td>
<td valign="top">Middle instances published</td>
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<td valign="top">November 8, 2019</td>
<td valign="top">Late instances published</td>
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<td valign="top">November 18, 2019 </td>
<td valign="top"> Final submission</td>
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<td valign="top">January 1, 2020</td>
<td valign="top">Open source solvers
publication</td>
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<td valign="top">January 15, 2020 <br>
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<td valign="top">Finalists published<br>
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<td valign="top">February-March, 2020</td>
<td valign="top">PATAT 2020 submissions</td>
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<td valign="top">August, 2020</td>
<td valign="top">Winners announced at PATAT
2020</td>
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<td valign="top">Autumn, 2020</td>
<td valign="top">Journal special issue</td>
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<font color="#4b276b"><b><br>
</b><b>AFTER THE COMPETITION</b></font><br>
<ul>
<li> The ITC 2019 website remains available</li>
<li>Tracking the best-known solutions and related
papers<br>
</li>
</ul>
<b> </b><font color="#843464"><b> </b><font
color="#3c256c"><b>SPONSORS</b></font></font><br>
<ul>
<li> Conference on the Practice and Theory of
Automated Timetabling (PATAT)</li>
<li>ORTEC: optimization software and analytics
solutions</li>
<li>Apereo Foundation: supporting open-source
software for higher education</li>
<li>EURO working group on Automated Timetabling
(EWG PATAT)</li>
<li>UniTime educational scheduling system</li>
<li>Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University<br>
</li>
</ul>
<font color="#702f66"><b> </b><font color="#3c256c"><b>ORGANIZERS</b></font></font><br>
<ul>
<li> Tomas Muller, Purdue University, UniTime,
s.r.o.<br>
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<li>Hana Rudova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University</li>
<li>Zuzana Mullerova, Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, UniTime, s.r.o.<br>
</li>
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See <font color="#f48a52"><font color="#f48a52"><a
href="https://www.itc2019.org" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#f48a52">https://www.itc2019.org</font></a></font>
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