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<td>Online Award Ceremony for ITC 2019 International
Timetabling Competition</td>
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<td>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:57:12 +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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<hr width="100%" size="2"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><img
src="cid:part1.B5F5828A.3105F25A@fing.edu.uy" alt="ITC 2019:
Online Award Ceremony, September 2, 2020 at 2 PM CEST,
https://www.itc2019.org" class="" moz-do-not-send="false"
width="562" height="166"> </font> </font>
<hr width="100%" size="2"><font color="#d97559"><b><br>
PROGRAM (about 2 hours)</b></font><br>
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<li>Introduction</li>
<li>Short description of the competition problems and data
instances</li>
<li>Short presentations of solution approaches by the finalists
(5 minutes per participant)</li>
<li>Competition results, winners & diploma</li>
<li>Questions</li>
</ul>
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<font color="#c2605d"> </font><font color="#c2605d"><b> </b><b>ONLINE
SETTING</b></font><br>
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<li>Videoconference using Zoom, see the link at <a
href="https://www.itc2019.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#f48a52"><font color="#f48a52">https://www.itc2019.org</font></font></a></li>
<li>Advance testing of the Zoom using the provided link<br>
</li>
<li>Send questions in advance using mailing list <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:organizers@itc2019.org" moz-do-not-send="true">organizers@itc2019.org</a><br>
</li>
<li>Questions during videoconference using chat in Zoom</li>
</ul>
<p><b> </b></p>
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<p><font color="#b2515f"><b><b>UNIVERSITY COURSE TIMETABLING
COMPETITION</b></b></font></p>
<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="#a54460"><b><b>RICH REAL-WORLD DATA
INSTANCES</b></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</li>
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<p><font color="#843464"><b>AFTER THE COMPETITION</b></font></p>
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<li> The ITC 2019 website remains available</li>
<li>Tracking the best-known solutions and related papers<br>
</li>
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<b> </b><font color="#843464"><b> </b><font color="#702f66"><b>SPONSORS</b></font></font><font
color="#702f66"><br>
</font>
<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>
</li>
<li>Hana Rudova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University</li>
<li>Zuzana Mullerova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, UniTime, s.r.o.</li>
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<p>See <font color="#f48a52"><font color="#f48a52"><a
href="https://www.itc2019.org" moz-do-not-send="true"><font
color="#f48a52">https://www.itc2019.org</font></a></font>
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