# PATAT — Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling

- **Submission deadline**: 2026-04-01
- **Notification date**: 2026-05-15
- **Conference date**: 2026-08-25
- **Location**: Nottingham, UK
- **Rankings**: CORE C
- **Conference Partner Index**: 51.0/100 (ranked #1384, confidence 0.80, algorithm 1.1) — how this is computed: https://www.myhuiban.com/ranking
- **Trackers**: 0
- **Attendees**: 0
- **Canonical page**: https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/5707

## Call for papers

Topics of interest and themes of the conference include, but are not limited to: Educational Timetabling Timetabling in Transport Employee Rostering - Sports Timetabling Timetabling in Healthcare Mathematical Programming Constraint-Based Methods Knowledge Based Systems Heuristic Search Metaheuristics (e.g., Evolutionary Computation, Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, Ant Colony Methods) Systems to Build Systems (e.g., Hyper-heuristics, Algorithm Portfolios) Algorithm Configuration Artificial Intelligence Trustworthiness, Fairness and Ethical Issues in Timetabling Graph Colouring Resource Capacity Planning Parallel/Distributed Computing Hybrid Methods (e.g., Memetic Computing, Matheuristics) Machine Learning (e.g., Data Mining, Classifier Systems, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, GFlowNets) Expert Systems Multi-objective Approaches Multi-criteria Decision Making Preference Collection and Elicitation in Timetabling Foundational Studies (e.g., Complexity Issues) Timetabling Tools and Technologies (e.g., Web Applications, Interactive and Batch Systems, Standard Data Formats, Ontologies, Experiences, Libraries)

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