Monday, January 25, 2021

[DMANET] PMS 2020/2021 fully online, new submissions allowed

Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the decision had been taken to postpone the PMS 2020 conference at the following date

PMS 2020/2021 - 21-23 April 2021

As the pandemic situation remains critical, the PMS 2020/2021 workshop has now switched to a fully online workshop.

87 papers were already accepted (see below), but new submissions of 4-page abstracts are allowed until February 20th 2021.
The submission will follow the standard refereeing process, please visit the web site (address below) for submission instructions.

We are currently readjusting the budget and the conference registration fees will be drastically reduced. We will inform you soon
about the registration update.

Best regards
Christian Artigues

Workshop Chair


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PMS 2020/2021
17th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling
April 21-23, 2021
Fully online workshop
New submissions allowed on https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/ <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/>

List of Accepted papers for the first submission phase (2020)
https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13>

Confirmed plenary speakers (abstracts available on the web site):
** Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne) - Modeling and solving complex job-shop scheduling problems
** Marjan van den Akker (Utrecht University) - Robustness in Scheduling
** Mario Vanhoucke (Ghent University) - Data Driven Project Management

Confirmed industrial plenary talk (abstract available on the web site)
** Philippe Laborie (IBM) - Industrial project and machine scheduling with Constraint Programming

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PMS is an international Workshop series initialized by the EURO PMS Working Group, devoted to project management and scheduling (https://www.euro-online.org/websites/pms/ <https://www.euro-online.org/websites/pms/>). The Workshop is held every two years in different locations around Europe. This event brings together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines of Computer Science, Operational Research, Optimisation Engineering, Mathematical Programming and Industrial Engineering. The Workshop covers theoretical results and algorithmic developments in the fields of Project Management and Scheduling, including project management and scheduling practice and applications to real-life situations.

PMS 2020/2021 (17th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling) has been postponed to April, 21-23, 2021 and will be a fully online workshop.

The Workshop website is https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/ <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/>

The Workshop will cover the following but non exhaustive list of project management and scheduling areas:
- Project Management: Network modeling, Project scheduling, Resource management, Due-date management, Project risk management, 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.

The list of accepted papers for the first submission phase (2020) is available here: https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13>

New submissions are allowed until February 20th 2021.

For detailed information and submission instructions, visit the Workshop website: https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/> or send an email to pms2020@sciencesconf.org <mailto:pms2020@sciencesconf.org>

We are looking forward to meeting you online !

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Christian Artigues (Workshop Chair)
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