| Name | Affiliation | Talk Title | Date | Continent | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sara Ceschia | University of Udine | Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling: Formulations, Solution Methods, and Benchmarking | 2026-12-16 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Home Healthcare, Routing and Scheduling, Benchmarking, Simulated Annealing, Mixed Integer Linear Programming |
| Ruibin Bai | Nottingham Ningbo | Learning to Schedule: Generative Hyper-Heuristics, Reinforcement Learning and Real-World Impact in Ports and Logistics | 2026-12-02 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Scheduling, Routing, Hyper-heuristics, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Genetic Programming, Combinatorial Optimization, Operations Research, Evolutionary Learning, Machine Learning, Vehicle Routing Problem, Container Port, Truck Dispatching, Job Shop Scheduling, Smart Logistics, Digital Twin, AI Optimization, Metaheuristics, Online Optimization, Transportation |
| Tobias Achterberg | Gurobi Optimization | Conflict Analysis and Restarts in Mixed Integer Programming | 2026-11-18 | North America & South America | Mixed Integer Programming, Conflict Analysis, Restarts |
| Vittorio Maniezzo | Universtiy of Bologna | Bootstrap-Enhanced Distributionally Robust Scheduling of Loading Yards | 2026-11-04 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Distributionally Robust Optimization, Forecasting, Truck Yard, Warehouse Logistics, Sample Average Approximation |
| Shunji Tanaka | Okayama University | Optimizing item stacking and retrieval | 2026-10-21 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Warehouse, Container Terminal, Parallel Stack Loading Problem, Block Relocation Problem, Container Relocation Problem, Integer Programming, Branch-and-cut, Combinatorial Benders Decomposition |
| Frits Spieksma | Eindhoven University of Technology | Scheduling in the World of Sports | 2026-10-07 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Sports, Fairness |
| Florian Jaehn | Helmut Schmidt University | Scheduling with restrictions on job positions | 2026-06-24 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Single-Machine Scheduling, Position Constraints, Structural Scheduling Properties, Complexity Analysis |
| Danny Segev | Tel Aviv University | New Approximation Guarantees for The Inventory Staggering Problem | 2026-06-10 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Inventory theory, Impossibility results, Approximation schemes, LP-rounding |
| Jin QI | Hong Kong UST | Elective Surgery Sequencing and Scheduling Under Uncertainty | 2026-05-27 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Healthcare operations, Sequencing and scheduling, Robust optimization, Risk measure |
| Debiao Li | Fuzhou University | Feature-driven Robust Stochastic Scheduling for Printed Circuit Board Assembly | 2026-05-13 | Asia, Australia & Oceania | Parallel machine scheduling, Processing time uncertainty, Setup time uncertainty, Event-wise ambiguity |
| Alena Otto | Techincal University of Munich | Overcoming poor data quality: Optimizing validation of precedence relation data | 2026-04-29 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Dynamic programming, Data validation problem, Assembly line balancing, Reinforcement learning |
| Bruno Escoffier | LIP6, Sorbonne U | Resource Leveling For Scheduling Problems: Some Complexity And Approximation Results | 2026-04-15 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Resource leveling, Complexity, Approximation algorithms |
| Tonguç Ünlüyurt | Sabanci University | A review of the sequential testing problem and its extensions | 2026-04-01 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Sequential Testing, Function Evaluation, Optimal Decision Trees, Approximation Algorithms |
| Kevin Schewior | University Of Cologne | Combinatorial Perpetual Scheduling | 2026-03-18 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Perpetual Scheduling, Matroids, Bamboo Garden Trimming, Pinwheel |
| Helmut Simonis | Insight Centre, UCC | Constraint Based Scheduling: A User Perspective | 2026-03-04 | Europe, the Middle East & Africa | Scheduling, Constraint Programming, Modeling, Scheduling Tool, Insight Centre For Data Analytics, University College Cork, Assistant, Ihtc 2024, Visualization |
| 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 |