This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, PATAT 2004, held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA in August 2004.
The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on general issues, transport timetabling, university course timetabling, school timetabling, project scheduling, and examination timetabling.