| Name | Affiliation | Talk Title | Date | Continent | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Blum | IIIA-CSIC | CMSA: A Hybrid Metaheuristic for Combinatorial Optimization | 2026-02-18 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Combinatorial Optimization, Hybrid Solver |
| Petr Vilím Vilém Heinz | OptalCP CTU in Prague, CIIRC | OptalCP: Constraint Programming with Parallel Search and Reinforcement Learning-Based Acceleration | 2026-02-04 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Constraint Programming, Reinforcement Learning, Failure-Directed Search, Large Neighborhood Search, Propagation, Scheduling |
| Laurent Houssin | ENAC, Université de Toulouse | Flow-shop and job-shop robust scheduling problems with budgeted uncertainty | 2025-12-10 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Discrete optimisation, Robust scheduling, Uncertainty budget, Constraint programming , Mixed integer linear programming |
| Hoogeveen, J.A. (Han) | Utrecht University | Planning shunting operations at railway hubs | 2025-11-26 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Shunt yard planning, AI, Local Search, Constraint Programming, Linear Programming, Data analysis, Logistic Regression, Decomposition, Synchronization, Technician Routing |
| Rachel R. Chen | UC Davis | Outpatient Appointment Scheduling with Waiting Time Limits | 2025-11-12 | North America & South America | Appointment scheduling, Waiting time limits, Uncertain service times |
| Zijie Zhou | IEDA, HKUST | Efficient and Robust Large Language Model (LLM) Inference
Scheduling
Optimization | 2025-10-29 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Scheduling, Optimization for LLM inference, Approximation online algorithms |
| Changhyun Kwon | KAIST/Omelet, Inc. | Learning-Based Approaches to Combinatorial Optimization in
Transportation | 2025-10-15 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Neural combinatorial optimization, Deep reinforcement learning, Vehicle routing |
| Dan Hermelin | Ben Gurion Uni | Fairness in Repetitive Scheduling | 2025-10-01 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Fairness, Repetitive scheduling, Tardy jobs, Total completion time, Combinatorial algorithms, Complexity results |
| Thomas Lidbetter | Rutgers University | Min sum ordering problems with applications to scheduling | 2025-06-04 | North America & South America | Scheduling, Search theory, Submodular functions, Min sum problems |
| Zhi-Long Chen | Univ of Maryland | Online Integrated Production and Distribution Scheduling | 2025-05-21 | North America & South America | Make-to-order, E-commerce, Order processing, Last mile delivery, Online algorithms, Competitive analysis |
| Rubing Chen | Zhengzhou Uni. | Single-machine hierarchical scheduling with release dates and
preemption to minimize the total completion time and a regular criterion | 2025-05-07 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Scheduling, Hierarchical criteria, Release date, Preemption, Total completion time |
| Přemysl Šůcha | CTU in Prague | Machine Learning Inside Decomposition of Scheduling Problems | 2025-04-09 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Machine learning, Decomposition, Branch and price, Lawler's decomposition |
| Daniele Vigo | Unibo CIRI-ICT | One Million ... and Beyond! Solving Huge-Scale Vehicle Routing
Problems in a Handful of Minutes | 2025-03-12 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Vehicle routing, Logistics optimization, Metaheuristics, Pruning and acceleration of local search |
| Defeng Sun | DAO lab, NEU China | Combinatorial Benders approach to solve the Quay Crane Scheduling
Problem | 2025-02-12 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Quay crane scheduling, Benders decomposition, Combinatorial cuts |
| Norbert Trautmann | University of Bern | Mixed-integer linear programming for project scheduling with
resource-unit related constraints | 2024-12-05 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Project scheduling, Multi-site projects, Workload balancing, Mixed-integer linear programming |
| Philippe Laborie | Hexaly | Hexaly Optimizer for Scheduling | 2024-11-20 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Mathematical optimization solver, Algebraic model, Industrial problems, Scalability, Constraint Programming, Local Search, Scheduling Theory, Exact approaches |
| Hugo Chareyre | Artelys | Operational scheduling in automotive industry | 2024-11-06 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Logistics, Automotive industry, Constraint Programming, RCPSP |
| Maciej Drozdowski | Poznań U. of Tech. | Scheduling divisible loads | 2024-10-23 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Data-parallel applications, Divisible load theory, Parallel performance modeling |
| Ender Ozcan | Uni of Nottingham | Machine Learning meets Selection Hyper-heuristics | 2024-06-12 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Intelligent decision support, Hyper-heuristics, Metaheuristics, Machine learning |
| Matthias Mnich | TU Hamburg | New Support Size Bounds for Integer Programming,
Applied to Makespan Minimization on Uniformly Related Machines | 2024-05-29 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Uniformly related machine scheduling, Makespan minimization, Efficient approximation schemes, Mixed-integer linear programming |
| André Rossi | Universite PSL | Maximizing stability of assembly line balancing schedules under
uncertain task duration | 2024-04-04 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Operations research, Integer linear programming, Decomposition methods |
| Pieter Smet | KU Leuven | Robustness in personnel rostering | 2024-03-20 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Personnel rostering, Robustness, On-call shift rostering, Operations research, Machine learning |
| Laurent Perron | Google France | The CP-SAT solver | 2024-03-06 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Constraint programming, SAT solver, Integer linear programming |
| Nils Boysen | University of Jena | Scheduling in the e-commerce era: New scheduling problems in order
fulfilment and warehousing | 2024-02-21 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Warehousing, E-commerce, Order fulfillment scheduling, Synchronization, Classification |
| Ceyda Oğuz | Koç University | A Matheuristic for the Generalized Order Acceptance and Scheduling
Problem | 2024-02-07 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Order acceptance and scheduling, Matheuristic, Variable neighborhood search, Tabu search |
| Klaus Heeger | Ben Gurion Uni | Minimizing the Weighted Number of Tardy Jobs is W[1]-hard | 2024-01-24 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Single-machine scheduling, Parameterized complexity, Number of numbers |
| Céline Swennenhuis | ALGO, TU Eindhov. | A Subexponential Time Algorithm for Makespan Scheduling of Unit
Jobs with Precedence Constraints | 2023-12-13 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Subexponential time, Precedence constraints |
| Maria Elena Bruni | Uni of Calabria | Enhancing project resilience: a risk-averse approach to payment
delays | 2023-11-29 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling under uncertainty and risk, Payment delays, Net Present Value, Cash flow analysis |
| Claire Hanen | Sorbonne U., LIP6 | Fixed Parameter Tractability of scheduling dependent typed tasks
with time windows | 2023-11-15 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Parameterized complexity, Typed tasks, Precedence constraints, Fixed parameter tractable algorithm |
| Dirk Briskorn | Uni of Wuppertal | Single-machine scheduling with an external resource | 2023-10-18 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Single-machine scheduling, External resource, Complexity, Pseudo-polynomial algorithm |
| Kan Fang | Tianjin University | Single machine scheduling in additive manufacturing with
two-dimensional packing constraints | 2023-10-04 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Scheduling, Additive manufacturing, Two-dimensional bin packing, Approximation algorithm, Combinatorial Benders decomposition |
| Tami Tamir | Reichman Uni | Scheduling with Machine-Dependent Priority Lists | 2023-06-21 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Machines' priority lists, Coordinated mechanisms, Minimum completion time, Equilibrium inefficiency |
| Vikram Tiwari | Vanderbilt Uni | Surgery Scheduling: Research and Practice | 2023-06-07 | North America & South America | Surgery, Scheduling, Operating Room, Healthcare, Capacity Management, Optimization |
| Erwin Pesch | Uni of Siegen | Conflict-Free Crane Scheduling in a Seaport Terminal | 2023-05-25 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Logistics, Scheduling, Stacking cranes, Container terminal, Branch and cut |
| Dries Goossens | Ghent University | Sports scheduling: from consulting to science | 2023-05-10 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Sports scheduling, Unified data format, International timetabling competition, Benchmarking, Instance space analysis, Algorithm selection |
| Rainer Kolisch | TU Munich | The Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Flexible
Resource
Profiles: Models, Methods, and Applications | 2023-04-26 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Project scheduling, Flexible resource profiles, Work content, MIP-formulations, Metaheuristic, Applications |
| Wojciech Božejko | Poli Wrocławska | Optimal solving of scheduling problems on D-Wave quantum
machines | 2023-04-12 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Quantum Annealing, Single machine, Exact algorithm |
| Xiangtong Qi | HKUST | Cooperative Games Models for Scheduling Problems | 2023-03-15 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Scheduling, Cooperative game, Core |
| Hyun-Jung Kim | KAIST | Scheduling with Machine Learning | 2023-03-01 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Scheduling, Manufacturing Systems, Machine Learning, Real Applications |
| Vincent T’kindt | Uni de Tours | The Marriage of Matheuristics and Scheduling | 2023-02-14 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Machine scheduling, Mathematical Programming, Heuristics |
| Jacques Carlier | Sorbonne Uni | Constructive and destructive bounds for the m-machine scheduling
problem | 2023-02-01 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Cumulative resource, Lower bound, Algorithms, Energetic reasoning |
| Lars Rohwedder | Maastricht University | Recent advances in flow time scheduling | 2023-01-18 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Flow time, Integer programming, Discrepancy, Dynamic programming |
| Sigrid Knust | Uni of Osnabrück | Synchronous flow shop scheduling problems | 2022-11-23 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Flow shop, Synchronized movement, Shelf board production |
| Alessandro Agnetis | University of Siena | Scheduling machines subject to unrecoverable failures and other
related
stochastic sequencing problems | 2022-11-09 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Machine breakdowns, Testing |
| Clifford Stein | Columbia Uni | Scheduling with Speed Predictions | 2022-10-26 | North America & South America | Scheduling, Machine learning, Predictions, On-line algorithms |
| Greet Vanden Berghe | KU Leuven | Vehicle routing: A focus on heuristic design | 2022-10-12 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Vehicle routing, Local search operators, Ruin and recreate, Spatial slack, Capacity slack, Fleet minimization |
| Alix Munier Kordon | Sorbonne U., LIP6 | Synchronous DataFlow: A survival guide | 2022-09-28 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Synchronous DataFlow, Precedence constraints, Normalization, Liveness, Throughput evaluation |
| Christos Zacharias | University of Miami | Dynamic Interday and Intraday Scheduling | 2022-09-14 | North America & South America | Dynamic programming, Discrete convexity, Stochastic models, Appointment scheduling |
| Maurice Queyranne | Sauder School, UBC | On Polyhedral Approaches to Scheduling Problems | 2022-06-22 | North America & South America | Scheduling, Polyhedra, Formulations |
| Nicole Megow | Universität Bremen | Learning-Augmented Online Algorithms for Scheduling and
Routing | 2022-06-06 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling under uncertainty, Algorithms with predictions, Learning-augmented algorithms, Non-clairvoyant scheduling, Online TSP |
| Stanislaw Gawiejnowicz | AMU Poznañ | Past, present and future of time-dependent scheduling | 2022-05-25 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Time-dependent scheduling, Variable job processing times, Approximation algorithms, Approximation schemes, Heuristics, Single machine, Parallel machines, Dedicated machines |
| Patrick De Causmaecker | KU Leuven | Data Science Meets Scheduling | 2022-05-11 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Data Science, Machine learning, Combinatorial optimization, Scheduling, Algorithms, Landscape analysis, Automated tuning, Automated construction, Automated selection, Instance hardness |
| Iiro Harjunkoski | Hitachi Energy | Scheduling and Energy – Industrial Challenges and
Opportunities | 2022-04-27 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Energy, MILP, Bilevel optimization, Real-world application, Industry, Sustainability |
| Pascal Van Hentenryck | Georgia Tech | Constraint Programming for Scheduling | 2022-04-13 | North America & South America | Constraint programming, Scheduling, Machine learning, Hybrid optimization |
| Christian Artigues | LAAS - CNRS | Mixed integer linear programming for resource-constrained
scheduling | 2022-03-30 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), Resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), solvers, relaxation, CP, SAT |
| Lars Mönch | Uni of Hagen | Scheduling Problems in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities:
Part 2 | 2022-03-16 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Batching, Semiconductor manufacturing, Decomposition methods |
| John W. Fowler | Arizona State Univ. | Scheduling Problems in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities:
Part 1 | 2022-03-02 | North America & South America | Semiconductor Manufacturing, Scheduling |
| Kangbok Lee | POSTECH | Scheduling Heuristics for Steelmaking Continuous Casting Processes | 2022-02-16 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Steelmaking-continuous casting, Hybrid flow shop, Mixed-integer programming, Matheuristic |
| Yindong Shen | AIA Huazhong Uni | Public transit planning and scheduling based on AVL data in
China | 2022-02-02 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Public transit planning, Vehicle scheduling, Timetabling, AVL data, Public transport |
| Dvir Shabtay | Ben Gurion Uni | On the Parameterized Complexity of Machine Scheduling Problems | 2022-01-19 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, NP-hard, Fixed parameterized tractability (FPT), Algorithmic design, Optimization |
| Rubén Ruiz | UP de València | State-of-the-art flowshop scheduling heuristics: Dos and
Don'ts | 2021-12-22 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Flowshop, Heuristics, Metaheuristics, Iterated greedy |
| Christoph Dürr | Sorbonne Uni | Three models for scheduling under explorable uncertainty | 2021-12-08 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, uncertainty, Sum of completion times, Processing time oracle, Competitive ratio |
| Michel Gendreau | Polytech Montréal | Tabu search for the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with
time
windows on a road network | 2021-11-24 | North America & South America | Routing, Time windows, Time-dependent travel times, Road network, Tabu search |
| Carlo Mannino | SINTEF & Oslo Uni. | Train Scheduling: Models, decomposition methods and practice | 2021-11-10 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Train scheduling, Job-shop scheduling, Combinatorial optimization, Integer programming, Decomposition methods |
| Benjamin Moseley | Carnegie Mellon | Machine Learning for Scheduling | 2021-10-27 | North America & South America | Scheduling, Learning augmented, Optimization, Sample complexity, Robustness, Error, Competitive, Approximation |
| Federico Della Croce | nominativo | The Longest Processing Time Rule for Identical Parallel Machines
Revisited | 2021-10-13 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Identical parallel machine scheduling, LPT rule, Linear programming, Approximation |
| Leah Epstein | University of Haifa | The Benefit of Preemption | 2021-09-29 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Preemptive scheduling, Uniformly related machines, Total completion time, Makespan |
| Nicholas G. Hall | The Ohio State Uni | Dynamic Opponent Choice in Tournaments | 2021-09-14 | North America & South America | Multiple round sports tournament, Choice of opponent, Performance criteria, Professional tennis |
| Andrea Schaerf | Uni of Udine | Educational Timetabling: Problems, Benchmarks, Algorithms, and
Practical
Issues | 2021-07-07 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Timetabling, Scheduling, Optimization, Metaheuristics, Local Search |
| Michael Carter | Uni of Toronto | Challenges in Healthcare Scheduling Applications | 2021-06-23 | North America & South America | Healthcare scheduling applications, Diagnostic imaging, Cancer treatment (chemotherapy and radiation), Nurse/physician scheduling, Surgical scheduling, 911 call centres, Home care routing, Medical resident scheduling and primary care appointments |
| Jinjiang Yuan | Zhengzhou Univ. | Updated complexity results in single-machine primary-secondary
sched.
for min. two regular criteria | 2021-06-10 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Single-machine scheduling, Promary-secondary criteria, Computational complexity |
| Erik Demeulemeester | FEB-KBI, KU Leuven | On the State of the Art in Proactive/Reactive Project Scheduling | 2021-05-26 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Project scheduling, Stochastic activity durations, Proactive/reactive scheduling, Markov decision process |
| Martin Skutella | TU Berlin | Efficient Algorithms and Provably Good Solutions for NP-hard
Scheduling
Problems | 2021-05-12 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Machine scheduling, List scheduling, Approximation algorithm, Performance guarantee, Total weighted completion time |
| Lixin Tang | North. Uni, Shenyang | Data Analytics and Optimization for Production, Logistics and
Energy
Scheduling | 2021-04-28 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Production scheduling, Logistics scheduling, Energy scheduling, Data analytics, System optimization, Engineering application |
| Mor Harchol-Balter | CMU | Recent Breakthroughs in Stochastic Scheduling Theory | 2021-04-14 | North America & South America | Stochastic scheduling, Job scheduling, M/G/1, M/G/k, SRPT, Shortest-job-first, Gittins, Queuing theory, Priority queues, Preemption, Data centers, High variability, Job sizes, SOAP, Sigmetrics, Performance modeling, Google workloads |
| Jan Karel Lenstra David Shmoys | CWI Cornell University | Elements Of Scheduling | 2021-03-31 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Scheduling history, Classification, Complexity, Online analysis, Data-driven decision-making, Algorithmic game theory |