Monash FCIT AI Consortium (MAIC)
  Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University

                  * * *  Seminar Announcement  * * *

               "SCHEDULING BUS DRIVERS BY COMPUTERS
            - WHERE THE TRADITIONAL EXPERT SYSTEMS FAILED"

                            
                           Dr. Liping Zhao
                 Department of Computer Science, RMIT
                       (liping@cs.rmit.edu.au)
 
                 Wednesday 6 September 1995 at 1.00 pm
          Room F6.47, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East 3145
 
Abstract
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The  scheduling process   is very much  at    the centre of a   public
transport  company's    business   because  it   produces  operational
timetables, vehicle schedules, driver schedules and rosters to provide
a level of service  to passengers.  This process  is also very complex
because it  is constrained by  many interdependent factors.   Over the
past 30 years, researchers  have developed computer methods of solving
this  scheduling problem, one  of which is  based on heuristics, where
the  solution method incorporates knowledge  of  human schedulers.  In
this  seminar, I shall give  an introduction to the scheduling problem
and  its  solution methods; I   shall  then present  my  experience of
solving this problem and of using an expert system shell.

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