MISTA 2009: Call for Papers

This conference is the 4th in a series of conferences (the first took place in Nottingham, UK in August 2003, the 2nd in New York in July 2005 and the 3rd in Paris in 2007) that serves as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of multi-disciplinary scheduling. The conference will cover, but not be limited to, the following disciplines:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Management
  • Manufacturing
  • Mathematics
  • Operational Research

The aim is to bring together scheduling researchers and practitioners from all the disciplines that engage with scheduling research. The scope of the conference includes (but is not limited to):

  • Agent Based Scheduling
  • Algorithmics
  • Applications
  • Automated Reasoning
  • Batch Scheduling
  • Commercial Packages
  • Complexity of Scheduling Problems
  • Constraint Logic Programming
  • Delivery Scheduling
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Heuristic Search
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Large Scale Scheduling
  • Local Search
  • Machine Scheduling
  • Meta-heuristic Search
  • Multi-processor Scheduling
  • Process Scheduling
  • Production Scheduling
  • Real World Scheduling
  • Real-Time Scheduling
  • Rostering
  • Rule-Based Expert Systems
  • Shop-Floor Scheduling
  • Sports Scheduling
  • Theoretical Scheduling
  • Timetabling
  • Transport Scheduling
  • Vehicle Routing

Submission Details

Authors are invited to submit papers in one of two categories

  1. Full Papers: These can be up to 10 pages and will be accepted as full papers at the conference.
  2. Extended Abstracts: These shorter papers (to a maximum of 3 pages) will give you the opportunity to present your work at the conference. The abstracts will also appear in the conference proceedings.

Both categories of papers will be invited to submit suitably revised and extended versions to a post conference issue of the Journal of Scheduling.

Formatting Guidelines

We will be providing both Word templates and Latex styles. We will only accept PDF file that have been formatted using these formatting styles.

Important Dates and Venues

All dates are provisional at the moment

  • 15th Jan 2009: Deadline submission
  • 15th Mar 2009: Decisions to authors
  • 30th May 2009: Early registration due
  • 30th May 2009: Camera ready papers due
  • 17th - 19th Aug 2009: Conference
  • 20th Aug 2009: Social Day