Dear scheduling researcher, We are delighted to announce the talk given by Dan Hermelin (Ben Gurion Uni). The title is "Fairness in Repetitive Scheduling". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, October 1 at 13:00 UTC. Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95495277409?pwd=9PgakxvN5aoKCnds1dnQRoPYcd7fl0.1 Meeting ID: 954 9527 7409 Passcode: 110425 You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A The abstract follows. It is by now well understood that fairness plays a key role in customer satisfaction. Yet, there is still a lack of models that help organizations make fair operational decisions, in particular when it comes to scheduling customers’ jobs. In this talk, I will present a novel framework for fair decision-making in repetitive scheduling environments. We study a setting with n clients, where in each of m consecutive periods (e.g., days), every client submits a job to be processed, and the scheduler must guarantee each client a minimum quality of service (QoS). I will demonstrate how this framework can be applied in different scheduling contexts and discuss some of the algorithmic challenges it raises. Joint work with Dvir Shabtay, Michael Pinedo, Rolf Niedermeier, Hendrik Molter, Klaus Heeger, and Danny Segev. The next talk in our series will be: Changhyun Kwon (KAIST/Omelet, Inc.) | October 1 | Learning-Based Approaches to Combinatorial Optimization in Transportation For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/ With kind regards Zdenek Hanzalek, Michael Pinedo and Guohua Wan -- Zdenek Hanzalek Industrial Informatics Department, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/