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      -------- Mensaje reenviado --------
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Asunto:
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            <td>Online Award Ceremony for ITC 2019 International
              Timetabling Competition</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Fecha: </th>
            <td>Fri, 28 Aug 2020 11:57:12 +0200</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">De: </th>
            <td>Hana Rudova <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ">&lt;hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ&gt;</a></td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Responder
              a: </th>
            <td>Hana Rudova <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ">&lt;hanka@FI.MUNI.CZ&gt;</a></td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Para: </th>
            <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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            src="cid:part1.B5F5828A.3105F25A@fing.edu.uy" alt="ITC 2019:
            Online Award Ceremony, September 2, 2020 at 2 PM CEST,
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          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 &amp; diploma</li>
        <li>Questions</li>
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      <font color="#c2605d"> </font><font color="#c2605d"><b> </b><b>ONLINE
          SETTING</b></font><br>
      <ul>
        <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>
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        <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>
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        <li>Questions during videoconference using chat in Zoom</li>
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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>
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          <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>
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      <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>
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      <b> </b><font color="#843464"><b> </b><font color="#702f66"><b>SPONSORS</b></font></font><font
        color="#702f66"><br>
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        <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>
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      <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.</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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