Monday, March 2, 2026

[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Helmut Simonis (Insight Centre, UCC) | March 4 | Constraint Based Scheduling: A User Perspective

Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Helmut Simonis (Insight
Centre, UCC). The title is "Constraint Based Scheduling: A User
Perspective". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, March 4
at 14:00 UTC.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98113121925?pwd=WhXaUqchaTaS2xqMQhx7ea1YXgxW9u.1
Meeting ID: 981 1312 1925
Passcode: 559971

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

The abstract follows.
Constraint Programming has been very successful in solving scheduling
problems. In this talk we present a number of case studies from a user's
perspective, focusing on how to develop a solution with off-the-shelf
tools, rather than on the underlying technology. We discuss issues of
tool choice, modeling approaches, visualization, and overall integration
on sample problems. The first case study is a complex scheduling and
planning problem for Siemens Energy, developed within the ASSISTANT
European project. The second example looks at models for a Hospital
Integrated Resource Management problem, based on the IHTC competition of
2024. The third case study is a generic scheduling tool which we have
developed to provide a simple-to-use solution for small to medium sized
scheduling problems.

The next talk in our series will be Kevin Schewior (University of
Cologne) | March 18 | Combinatorial Perpetual Scheduling.
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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