2nd CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Special issue of JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING on
APPLICATIONS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR PLANNING AND SCHEDULING Submission deadline: June 15, 2008 Guest Editors: Roman Barták and Hana Rudová http://kti.mff.cuni.cz/~bartak/JOSH2008/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Motivation and Contents: The proposed special issue focuses on algorithms and methods for planning and scheduling problems including articles presenting theoretical studies or practical applications. Applications of artificial intelligence methods to any scheduling or planning problem are especially welcomed. Emphasis is given to papers describing immediately applicable techniques and application papers. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) * Applications and case studies from planning and scheduling * Methodologies and tools for specification, design, implementation, and validation of planning and scheduling systems * Search for planning and scheduling * Constrained-based planning and scheduling * Distributed and multi-agent planning and scheduling * Relationships between planning and scheduling * Knowledge engineering techniques for planning and scheduling * Planning with resources and time constraints * Hierarchical task network planning * Dynamic scheduling * Mixed-initiative planning and scheduling * Plan and schedule execution, monitoring and repair * Planning and scheduling under uncertainty * Anytime and real-time planning and scheduling Submissions: Papers should be submitted electronically via the Journal of Scheduling's online submission system <http://www.editorialmanager.com/josh/>, following the journal's instructions to authors. Please indicate that your submission is to the Special Issue on "Applications and Methodologies for P&S". There are no restrictions on the length of the paper. However, papers of unusual length should be discussed with the guest editors prior their submission. All papers submitted to the special issue will be reviewed in accordance with the standard procedures of the Journal of Scheduling. Please contact guest editors for additional information (including appropriateness of particular submissions for this call). Important dates: Paper submissions : June 15, 2008 Notification about final decisions: January, 2009 Final versions: March, 2009 Expected publication: 2009 Please consider that a second round of reviewing may be necessary if major revisions are requested by the reviewers. The first reviewing round is expected to finish in early September and the revised papers are expected in October. Guest editors: Roman Bartak Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Malostranske nam. 2/25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic Tel.: +420 221 914 242 / Fax: +420 221 914 323 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://ktiml.mff.cuni.cz/~bartak Hana Rudova Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic Tel.: +420 549 496 345 / Fax: +420 549 491 820 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~hanka _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
