Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Rainer Kolisch (TU Munich). The title is "The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Flexible Resource Profiles: Models, Methods, and Applications".

The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, April 26 at 13:00 UTC. Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/94073736203?pwd=V2RwWkI3eTB2WGw4TFU5YmdmRVgwZz09 Meeting ID: 940 7373 6203 Passcode: 259630

You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows. The resource-constrained project scheduling problem with flexible resource profiles (FRCPSP) is a generalization of the RCPSP where for each activity a work content is given, which has to be allocated between the start and the finish time of the activity. Hence, next to the start time of activities, a schedule comprises the decision about the duration and the allocation of the work content between the start and the finish time for the activities. The FRCPSP has been introduced in 2003 in the context of real-world application of pharmaceutical research projects. Since, then different models and methods as well as applications have been proposed in the literature. In this talk we will present the FRCPSP, discuss available MIP-formulations as well as heuristics and will present work on the use of FRCPSP to solve different real-world optimization problems.

The next talk in our series will be: Dries Goossens (Ghent University) | May 10 | Sports scheduling: from consulting to science. For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua