2nd ARRIVAL annual workshop and review meeting PDF Print E-mail

The 2nd annual workshop and review meeting of the ARRIVAL project will take place in Rome from the 11th to the 13th of March 2008. The event is organized by the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and the University of L'Aquila. It consists of a one day review meeting of the ARRIVAL project (March 11), whose attendance is limited, and a two days workshop with invited and contributed talks (March 12-13).

The 2nd ARRIVAL annual workshop will take place at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica - DIS) of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", while the review meeting will take place at the School of Engineering.

ARRIVAL is a Specific Targeted Research Project funded by the FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) Unit of the European Commission (EC) — priority IST (Information Society Technologies) — within the 6th Framework Programme of EC, under contract no. FP6−021235–2.

The main objective of the annual workshop is to present research results achieved within the ARRIVAL project in the field of robust planning and rescheduling. The workshop is also intended to provide a forum for the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques and methods with other researchers in the field of railway optimization. To this aim, everyone is encouraged to present its research in the domain of the ARRIVAL project.