Monday, September 29, 2025

[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Dan Hermelin (Ben Gurion Uni) | October 1 | Fairness in Repetitive Scheduling

Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Dan Hermelin (Ben Gurion
Uni). The title is "Fairness in Repetitive Scheduling". The seminar will
take place on Zoom on Wednesday, October 1 at 13:00 UTC.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95495277409?pwd=9PgakxvN5aoKCnds1dnQRoPYcd7fl0.1
Meeting ID: 954 9527 7409
Passcode: 110425

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

The abstract follows.
It is by now well understood that fairness plays a key role in customer
satisfaction. Yet, there is still a lack of models that help
organizations make fair operational decisions, in particular when it
comes to scheduling customers' jobs. In this talk, I will present a
novel framework for fair decision-making in repetitive scheduling
environments. We study a setting with n clients, where in each of m
consecutive periods (e.g., days), every client submits a job to be
processed, and the scheduler must guarantee each client a minimum
quality of service (QoS). I will demonstrate how this framework can be
applied in different scheduling contexts and discuss some of the
algorithmic challenges it raises. Joint work with Dvir Shabtay, Michael
Pinedo, Rolf Niedermeier, Hendrik Molter, Klaus Heeger, and Danny Segev.

The next talk in our series will be:
Changhyun Kwon (KAIST/Omelet, Inc.) | October 1 | Learning-Based
Approaches to Combinatorial Optimization in Transportation
For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek Hanzalek, Michael Pinedo and Guohua Wan

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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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