We are delighted to announce the talk given by Zhi-Long Chen (Univ of
Maryland).
The title is "Online Integrated Production and Distribution Scheduling".
The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, May 21 at 13:00 UTC.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96828038614?pwd=2muPtkXSwJC5pmFj9hLblhFPvUlHuZ.1
Meeting ID: 968 2803 8614
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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.
As a growing number of companies adopt make-to-order business model or
sell their products online, we are seeing numerous decision problems
that can be modeled as integrated production and distribution scheduling
(IPDS) problems. In such problems, order processing and delivery must be
scheduled jointly in order to achieve an optimal balance between total
operational costs and overall customer service. Offline IPDS problems,
in which the information about every order is known in advance with
certainty, are extensively studied. However, research on online IPDS
problems, in which orders arrive randomly with their information unknown
until they arrive, is relatively recent but is growing rapidly. In this
talk, we first describe two real-world applications to illustrate the
importance of studying online IPDS problems from a practical point of
view, and highlight the challenges in deriving good algorithms for
online IPDS problems. We then focus on one specific problem and analyze
an online algorithm for the problem. Finally, we provide an overview of
this problem area and discuss possible topics for future research.
The next talk in our series will be:
Thomas Lidbetter (Rutgers University) | June 4 | Min sum ordering
problems with applications to 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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