Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by André Rossi (Universite PSL). The title is " Maximizing stability of assembly line balancing schedules under uncertain task duration ". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, April 3 at 13:00 UTC. Please be aware of summertime.

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

The abstract follows. We consider a variant of the simple assembly line balancing problem in which the number of workstations and the cycle time are fixed, but some tasks are subjected to uncertainty (processing times can increase). The purpose is to maintain the schedule feasibility when the duration of tasks increases. To achieve this, we consider two stability measures (to be maximized): the stability radius, and the stability factor, that correspond to different types of task duration increase. The scheduling problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear program, and this formulation is strengthened by an upper bound and a heuristic. More specifically, the allocation intervals of the tasks, that are based on precedence constraints, are narrowed, which in turn are used to improve the results of the heuristic and the mixed integer linear programming formulation.

The next talk in our series will be: Matthias Mnich (TU Hamburg) | May 29 | New Support Size Bounds for Integer Programming, Applied to Makespan Minimization on Uniformly Related Machines

For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua