We are delighted to announce the talk given by Jacques Carlier (Sorbonne 
University).
The title is " Constructive and destructive bounds for the m-machine 
scheduling problem ".
The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, February 1 at 14:00 UTC.
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https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/91663233347?pwd=SndKeS93bnRDdGRPWGtQUS9pWlZEUT09
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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.
The aim of this talk is to present some new results on constructive and 
destructive bounds for the m-machine scheduling problem. Recently we 
have characterized mathematically the three main constructive bounds 
which are the preemptive bound, the energetic bound and the JPPS 
makespan. These characterizations give insights to their similarities 
and differences. It explains why these bounds are generally equal in 
practice. Moreover our characterization of the energetic bound 
introduced by Erschler, Lopez and Thuriot permits to build a 0(n 
alpha(n) logn) ( alpha(n) Ackermann coefficient) checker. It is the best 
one in literature. We have compared it to the checkers of Baptiste 
Lepape and Nuijten (O(nsquare)) and to the checker of Ouellet and 
Quimper (O(nlognlogn)). The checker of Baptiste, Lepape and Nuijten is 
based on an identification of useful intervals and on incremental 
evaluations of intervals energy. Ouellet and Quimper prove that the 
energy matrix is a Monge matrix and evaluate the energy of some interval 
thanks to a pre-calculated data structure based on range trees. We 
characterize mathematically the useful intervals, then we use the data 
structures introduced by Ouellet and Quimper and a nice algorithm for 
partial Monge Matrix. Our checker is also the best one in practice in 
literature, as it is confirmed by the numerical results we report. Work 
in collaboration with Abderrahim Sahli, Antoine Jouglet1 and Eric Pinson.
The next talk in our series will be:
Vincent T'kindt (University of Tours) | February 15 | The Marriage of 
Matheuristics and Scheduling.
For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/
With kind regards
Zdenek, Mike and Guohua
-- 
Zdenek Hanzalek
Industrial Informatics Department,
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/
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