Computer Systems Laboratory - ECE, University of Patras

The solution that was submitted by the research team of the Univerity of Patras, Computer Systems Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (Dr Christos Valouxis, Dr. Christos Gogos, Dr. George Goulas, Dr. Panayiotis Alefragis, Prof. Efthymios Housos) won all three tracks of the 1st International Nurse Rostering Competition. The competition was organized by CODes, SINTEF and SaTT and lasted between 1/3/2010 and 20/6/2010 and was supported by the PATAT 2010 International Conference.
The solution scored the best results amongst 15 competitors who had submitted final solutions (https://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/nrpcompetition/competitor-ranking) that conformed to the competition requirements. The three competition tracks were variations of the same problem, with differences in problem size and available computation time. The implemented software used Integer Programming combined with heuristic techniques. The solution approach was presented at the 8th Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling 2010.
The same research team achieved a second place award in the 2nd International Timetabling Competition in 2007. For more information, click here

Award in International Competition

In the 2nd International Timetabling Competition ITC2007, that is supported by the International Conference PATAT2008 and the WATT (European Working Group on Automated Timetabling), the solution and the software for the Examination Timetabling Problem that was proposed from the group of the Computers System Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras(Gogos Christos, Dr. Panayiotis Alefragis and Prof. Efthymios Housos) took the second position.

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Patras