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From: erickson@LIBRA.CS.NPS.NAVY.MIL (David Erickson)
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Subject: Conferences & School Scheduling Problem (was: Re: NECC Information?)
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Date: 27 Feb 91 16:20:00 GMT
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In article <15096@june.cs.washington.edu> Rich Pattis writes:
>Can someone point me to information about this year's NECC conference.

>Rich Pattis

I have a somewhat related question.  I recently did some work on the
school scheduling problem that I would like to present at a conference.
I had considered both the AERA (American Educational Research Assoc'n) annual
meeting, and the SODA (ACM-SIAM symposium on discrete algorithms) meetings
since the results would be of interest to both groups.  Is there a single
conference (e.g. NECC) where I can make a single presentation that will
reach researchers in both communities who are interested in the school
scheduling problem?  

This communication problem also appears to exist in the educational 
databases: when I did my initial literature searches on school scheduling 
and timetabling, the ERIC database turned up quite a few references, but 
many more did not show up.  The MATHSCI database contained a great number
of articles on timetabling that were not present in ERIC, but it was not
complete, either.

-Dave Erickson