PMS 2012
13th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling
April 1-4, 2012
Leuven (Belgium)
PMS is an international workshop series initialized by the EURO PMS Working Group, devoted to project management and scheduling (http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/pms/). The workshop is held every two years in different locations around Europe.
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines of Computer Science, Operational Research, Optimization Engineering, Mathematical Programming and Industrial Engineering. Theoretical results and algorithmic developments in the fields of Project Management and Scheduling will be covered, including project management and scheduling practice and applications to real-life situations.
PMS 2012 (13th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling) is organized by the Research Center for Operations Management (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/eng/tew/academic/prodbel/) of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).
A Welcome Reception will be held on April 1, 2012.
The workshop itself will then be held on the three consecutive days from April 2, 2012 till April 4, 2012.
The workshop website is now available (https://www.econ.kuleuven.be/eng/tew/academic/prodbel/pms2012).
The workshop will consist of technical and selected presentations as well as invited presentations made by esteemed researchers working on Project Management and Scheduling.
Workshop venue
The workshop will be held in university buildings located in the center of the city of Leuven (Belgium)(http://www.leuven.be/en/) .
Topics
The workshop will cover the following but non exhaustive list of topics:
Project Management
* Network modeling,
* Project scheduling,
* Resource management,
* Due-date management,
* Project risk manbagement,
* Project scheduling under uncertainty,
* Proactive/reactive project scheduling,
* Multicriteria project scheduling,
* Applications,
* Software.
Machine Scheduling
* Shop scheduling,
* Scheduling with additional constraints,
* Machine assignment and scheduling,
* Flexible / robust scheduling,
* Grid scheduling,
* Multicriteria scheduling,
* Applications,
* Software.
Abstract submission
Extended abstracts of not more than 4 single-spaced A4 pages are allowed for submission. Templates and guidelines to authors will be made available on the PMS 2012 website. These 4-page submissions will be reviewed according to the standard reviewing process of international conferences. A selection of submissions will be presented during the workshop.
After the workshop venue, the authors will have the opportunity to submit full papers to a feature issue of an international journal, as for the previous editions of the workshop.
Accommodation
A list of hotels with on-line registration possibility will be made available on the PMS 2012 website.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Erik Demeulemeester (Conference Chair)
Willy Herroelen
Em. Prof. Dr. Willy Herroelen
Research Center for Operations Management
Department of Decision Sciences & Information Management
Faculty of Business and Economics, Naamsestraat 69, B-3000 Leuven (Belgium)
Mobile Phone +32 476 55 24 74
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
**********************************************************
Posts
