If you're an experienced higher education timetabler, you'll know how far the technology behind timetabling software has improved over the years. But it still has a long way to go.
PATAT is the forum where the leading lights of the international automated timetabling research community have been meeting to discuss the latest advances in research since 1995. While their research covers the full spectrum of timetabling applications – essentially everything in education, healthcare, transport and industry that uses a timetable – Practitioners' Day is a new initiative for 2018 aimed at timetablers from education.
The day will give practitioners the chance to sit down with researchers to both learn more about advances in automated timetabling and how this will improve the quality and efficiency of their work in the future, and share their valuable end-user experience as a way of guiding future research work. It should be a win–win for everyone involved.
We've created a special one–day registration package just for timetablers – this will be available here from Monday 25th June and will enable you to attend the conference in Vienna just for the Practitioners' Day.