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Martin Skutella (TU Berlin) | May 12 | Efficient Algorithms and Provably Good Solutions for NP-hard Scheduling Problems
by Zdeněk Hanzálek 07 May '21

07 May '21

Dear scheduling researcher, We are delighted to announce the talk given by Martin Skutella (TU Berlin). The title is "Efficient Algorithms and Provably Good Solutions for NP-hard Scheduling Problems". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, May 12 at 13:00 UTC: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/97275617228?pwd=R3ZEMlhialpFSlBUcUo2NEVmS214dz09 <https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/97275617228?pwd=R3ZEMlhialpFSlBUcUo2NEVmS214dz09> Meeting ID: 972 7561 7228 Passcode: 672344 You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A The abstract follows. Machine scheduling problems are among the first optimization problems for which approximation algorithms have been analyzed. An approximation algorithm is a polynomial-time algorithm which always finds a feasible solution whose objective function value is within an a priori known factor (performance ratio) of the optimum solution value. In this talk we focus on identical parallel machine scheduling with total weighted completion time objective. We present, among other things, a refined analysis of the performance ratio for the weighted shortest processing time first (WSPT) rule. This is joint work with Sven Jäger. The next seminar in our series will be given by Erik Demeulemeester (FEB-KBI, KU Leuven) "On the State of the Art in Proactive/Reactive Project Scheduling" and it will be held on May 26 at 13:00 UTC. For more details please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/ With kind regards Zdenek, Mike and Guohua

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Lixin Tang (NEU) | April 28 | Data Analytics and Optimization for Production, Logistics and Energy Scheduling
by Zdeněk Hanzálek 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Dear scheduling researcher, We are delighted to announce the talk given by Lixin Tang (Northeastern Uni, Shenyang). The title is "Data Analytics and Optimization for Production, Logistics and Energy Scheduling". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, April 28 at 13:00 UTC. https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93613611791?pwd=QlRuZitWcU9tb1dTNGorUGtab1MyUT09 Meeting ID: 936 1361 1791 Passcode: 193553 The number of participants on Zoom is limited. Therefore, you can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A The abstract follows. This talk discusses some interesting topics on scheduling and data analytics of production, logistics and energy in the steel industry, including: 1) production batching and scheduling in steelmaking/continuous casting, and hot/cold rolling operations; 2) logistics scheduling in storage/stowage, shuffling, transportation and (un)loading operations; 3) energy optimization including energy allocation, coordinated planning and scheduling of production and energy; 4) data based analytics, including dynamic analytics of BOF steelmaking process based on multi-stage modeling; temperature prediction of blast furnace; temperature prediction of molten iron in transportation process; energy analytics for estimation, prediction of generation and consumption, diagnosis and benchmarking; temperature prediction of reheat furnace based on mechanism and data; strip quality analytics of continuous annealing based on multi-objective ensemble learning; process monitoring and diagnosis of continuous annealing based on mechanism and data. The next seminar in our series will be given by Martin Skutella (TU Berlin) "Efficient Algorithms and Provably Good Solutions for NP-hard Scheduling Problems" and it will be held on Wednesday, May 12 at 13:00 UTC. For more details please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/ With kind regards Zdenek, Mike and Guohua

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Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU) | April 14 | Recent Breakthroughs in Stochastic Scheduling Theory
by Zdeněk Hanzálek 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Dear scheduling researcher, We are delighted to announce the second seminar in our new Scheduling Seminars Series (see https://schedulingseminar.com/ ). It will be given by Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University). The title is "Recent Breakthroughs in Stochastic Scheduling Theory". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, April 14 at 13:00 UTC. https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96341182746?pwd=MTFsNDE0V01UK091ZVdLdEVNN0JaQT09 Meeting ID: 963 4118 2746 Passcode: 898539 The number of participants on Zoom is limited. Therefore, you can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A The abstract follows. This talk considers stochastic scheduling, where job sizes and arrival times are drawn from a distribution. As empirical job size variability has skyrocketed, stochastic scheduling research has grown increasingly important. What scheduling policies should we use to keep response times low? How should we schedule when job sizes are unknown or only partially known? What scheduling policies should we use in a multi-server (M/G/k) setting, as compared with a single-server (M/G/1) setting? How can we analyze the response times of scheduling policies in single-server and multi-server settings? In this talk, we discuss recent breakthroughs over the last 3 years in the area of stochastic scheduling. These include: (1) The SOAP scheduling framework, which greatly expands the class of scheduling policies whose response times we can now analyze in the M/G/1 setting. (2) The first response time analysis of common scheduling policies in the M/G/k. (3) Asymptotically optimal scheduling in the M/G/k. Joint work with: Ziv Scully, Isaac Grosof The third seminar in our series will be given by Lixin Tang (NorthEastern University in ShenYang, China) "Data Analytics and Optimization for Production, Logistics, and Energy Scheduling" and it will be held on April 28 at 13:00 UTC. For more information, please visit our webpage https://schedulingseminar.com/ With kind regards Zdenek, Mike and Guohua

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Reminder - J.K. Lenstra and D. Shmoys - March 31 - Elements of scheduling
by Zdeněk Hanzálek 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Dear scheduling researcher, We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our new Scheduling Seminars Series (see https://schedulingseminar.com/ ). It will be given by Jan Karel Lenstra (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam) and David Shmoys (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY). The title is "Elements of scheduling". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, March 31 at 13:00 UTC. https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93174548631?pwd=YWlkOXcvQUFZTllPUHdUQ3pPVmkzZz09 Meeting ID: 931 7454 8631 Passcode: 488880 The questions will be managed using sli.do #141421 The number of participants on Zoom is limited. Therefore, you can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A J.K. Lenstra and D. Shmoys were invited by Michael Pinedo (New York University) to give the talk, whose abstract follows. During the 1970’s, the area of scheduling developed from a hodge-podge of isolated results into a unified theory. Over the past decades, it has grown to a mature and lively area, which is a meeting point of operations research, mathematics and computer science, and at the same time a sound basis for the allocation of scarce resources to activities over time in many practical situations. We will sketch the early development of scheduling theory, and also discuss the integration of ideas from online analysis, stochastic models, and machine learning in response to the needs of a changing society. The second seminar in our series will be given by Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU) in "Recent breakthroughs in stochastic scheduling analysis" and it will be on April 14 at 13:00 UTC. With kind regards Zdenek, Mike and Guohua

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J.K. Lenstra and D. Shmoys - March 31 - Elements of Scheduling
by Zdeněk Hanzálek 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Dear scheduling researcher, We are delighted to announce the first talk in our new series titled Scheduling Seminar (see https://schedulingseminar.com/ ). It will be given by Jan Karel Lenstra (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam) and David Shmoys (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY). The title is "Elements of Scheduling". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, March 31 at 13:00 UTC. https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93174548631?pwd=YWlkOXcvQUFZTllPUHdUQ3pPVmkzZz09 Meeting ID: 931 7454 8631 Passcode: 488880 The number of participants on Zoom is limited. Therefore, you can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A/live J.K. Lenstra and D. Shmoys were invited by Michael Pinedo (New York University) to give the talk, whose abstract follows. During the 1970’s, the area of scheduling developed from a hodge-podge of isolated results into a unified theory. Over the past decades, it has grown to a mature and lively area, which is a meeting point of operations research, mathematics and computer science, and at the same time a sound basis for the allocation of scarce resources to activities over time in many practical situations. We will sketch the early development of scheduling theory, and also discuss the integration of ideas from online analysis, stochastic models, and machine learning in response to the needs of a changing society. The second seminar in our series will be given by Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU) in "Recent Breakthroughs in Stochastic Scheduling Analysis" and it will be on April 14 at 13:00 UTC. With kind regards Zdenek, Mike and Guohua General information about the seminars: We have organized worldwide virtual seminars on scheduling research and applications to discuss both the field's newest advancements and traditional area surveys. The basic idea is to have biweekly talks by researchers from anywhere in the world. We believe that it is a perfect moment to explore this opportunity, which may help attract young people to this field. A Program Committee (PC) will keep the quality of the talks that will remain immortal when recorded and available on Youtube. (It may be time to modernize our community ) The seminar series' overall organization will be undertaken by three PC co-chairs. The three people who, up to now, have initiated this venture are Zdenek Hanzalek (Prague), Michael Pinedo (New York), and Guohua Wan (Shanghai).

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