Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV: 4th International Conference, PATAT 2002, Gent, Belgium, August 21-23, 2002, Selected Revised Papers

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 4th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002) held in Gent, August 21–23, 2002. Since the first conference in Edinburgh in 1995, the range of timetabling applications at the conferences has become broader and more diverse. In the s- ected papers volume from the 1995 conference, there were just two contributions (out of 22) which did not specifically address school and university timetabling. ...