The 12th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT-2018) took place between 28th and 31st of August, 2018, at the TU Wien, Vienna, Austria. The conference brought together more than 80 researchers and practitioners in all aspects of computer-aided timetable generation and related issues. The PATAT-2018 program extended over 3 days and featured presentations which represent the state-of-the-art in automated timetabling: there were 4 plenary talks, 2 invited tutorials, 22 full papers and 27 extended abstracts. The program included plenary talks by Johannes Gärtner (Ximes GmbH), Louis-Martin Rousseau (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Hana Rudová (Masaryk University), and Pascal Van Hentenryck (University of Michigan), and invited tutorials by Jeffrey Kingston (University of Sydney) and Andrea Schaerf (University of Udine). The detailed conference program and proceedings of PATAT-2018 can be found in the conference website (http://patatconference.org/patat2018/). As was the case in previous PATAT conferences, a post-conference volume of selected and revised papers will be published in Annals or Operational Research. 

The PATAT-2018 conference was a great success and the participants enjoyed the invited/regular talks and various networking opportunities provided during the conference.

The conference was sponsored by Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms (VCLA), EURO working group on Automated Timetabling (EWG PATAT), Eventmap, MCP, Vienna Convention Bureau and TU Wien (DBAI Group and CD-Lab for AI and Optimization for Planning and Scheduling). 

Conference web page: http://patatconference.org/patat2018/ 
Conference proceedings: http://patatconference.org/patat2018/proceedings/