Chairman of the Steering Committee of the international series of conferences on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT).

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 9th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'12), Oslo, August 2012.

Technical co-chair of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 10th-15th June 2012.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 8th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'10), Belfast, 10th-13th August 2010.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 7th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'08), Montreal, 19th-22nd August 2008, co-editor of the full proceedings and co-editor of a special issue of Annals of Operations Research which will feature selected and revised articles from the conference.

Co-Chair of the Programme Committee of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 9th International Conference on Parellel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN IX), Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9 - 13, 2006. Proceedings published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series vol 4193.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 6th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'06) conference held in Brno, August 30th- September 1st 2006, co-editor of the full proceedings and co-editor of a selected papers volume, published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series vol 3867.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 8th International Conference on Parellel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VIII), Birmingham, UK, 18-22 September 2004. Proceedings published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Vol. 3242, 2004.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 5th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'04) conference held in Pittsburgh, August 18th-20th 2004, co-editor of the full proceedings and co-editor of a selected papers volume which was published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Vol. 3616.

Chairman of the Special Program Committee on Evolutionary Scheduling and Routing of the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), June 26-30 2004, in Seattle, USA. Proceedings published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Volumes 3102 and 3103.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 1st Multi-Disciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA03) held in the Royal Moat House Hotel, Nottingham, August 13th-15th 2003, co-editor of a full proceedings and co-editor of a selected papers volume published by Springer

Co-organiser of the International Workshop on Introductory Tutorials in Optimisation and Search Methodologies (INTROS) held in the Royal Moat House Hotel, Nottingham, August 12th. I am also co-editor of an associated book called Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Methodologies, published by Springer in 2005.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 4th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'02) conference held in Ghent, August 21st-23rd 2002, co-editor of the full proceedings and co-editor of a selected papers volume published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Vol 2740.

Chairman of the Special Program Committee on Evolutionary Scheduling and Routing of the 2002 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002), July 9-13 2002, in New York, USA.

Chairman of the Special Program Committee on Evolutionary Scheduling and Routing of the 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001), July 7-11 2001, in San Francisco, USA.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 3rd international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'00) conference held in Konstanz in August 2000, co-editor of the full proceedings and co-editor of a volume of Selected Papers published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Vol 2079.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 2nd international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'97) conference, held in Toronto in August 1997, co-editor of the full proceedings and co-editor of a volume of Selected Papers published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Vol 1408.

Co-chair of the Programme Committee of the 1st international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'95) conference, held in Edinburgh in August/September 1995, co-editor of the full proceedings and co-editor of a volume of Selected Papers published by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series Vol 1154.

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