16th Int'l Conference on Project Management and Scheduling
April, 17-20, 2018
Residenza di Ripetta - Via di Ripetta, 231 
Rome - Italy

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, 18th APRIL

OPENING SESSION
Wednesday, 18
th April, 9:00 - 9:30
Room “Salone Bernini”
PLENARY SESSION 1

Jacques Carlier
Comparing event-node graphs with nonrenewable resources and activity-node graphs with renewable resources

Wednesday, 18
th April, 9:30 - 10:30
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Massimiliano Caramia

PARALLEL SESSION WA1
RCPSP – 1
Wednesday, 18
th April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Mario Vanhoucke

A new polynomial-time algorithm for calculating upper bounds on resource usage for RCPSP problem

Dmitry Arkhipov*, Olga Battaďa and Alexander Lazarev

Resource-constrained project scheduling with alternative project structures: how to leverage project structure flexibility to tackle uncertainty?

Tom Servranckx and Mario Vanhoucke

Minimizing resource management costs in a portfolio with resource transfer possibilities

Jerome Bridelance and Mario Vanhoucke

PARALLEL SESSION WA2
SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING – 1
Wednesday, 18
th April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room “Salone Pavillon Ripetta”
Chair: Vincent T'Kindt

Minimizing the total weighted completion time in single machine scheduling with non-renewable resource constraints

Peter Gyorgyi* and Tamas Kis

The price of fairness in a two-agent single-machine scheduling problem

Alessandro Agnetis, Bo Chen, Gaia Nicosia and Andrea Pacifici

An O*(1.41n)-time algorithm for a single machine just-in-time scheduling problem with common due date and symmetric weights

T'Kindt Vincent, Lei Shang and Federico Della Croce

PARALLEL SESSION WA3
MULTI – MODE RCPSP
Wednesday, 18
th April, 11:00 - 12:30
Room “Salone Esedra”
Chair: Erik Demeulemeester

A new set of benchmark instances for the multi-mode resource investment problem

Patrick Gerhards*

A new pre-processing procedure for the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Christian Stürck*

A robust optimization model for the multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problem with uncertain activity durations

Noemie Balouka* and Izack Cohen

PARALLEL SESSION WB1
SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING – 2
Wednesday, 18
th April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Jan Weglarz

Finding a specific permutation of jobs for a single machine scheduling problem with deadlines

Thuy Tien Ta and Jean-Charles Billaut

Single machine scheduling with m:n relations between jobs and orders: minimizing the sum of completion times and its application in warehousing

Nils Boysen, Konrad Stephan and Felix Weidinger

Power usage minimization in server problems of scheduling computational jobs on a single processor

Rafał Różycki, Grzegorz Waligóra and Jan Węglarz

PARALLEL SESSION WB2
VEHICLE ROUTING AND SCHEDULING - 1
Wednesday, 18
th April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room “Salone Pavillon Ripetta”
Chair: Alessandro Agnetis

Modelling and solving the hotspot problem in air traffic control

Carlo Mannino, Giorgio Sartor and Patrick Schittekat

Scheduling vehicles with spatial conflicts

Atle Riise, Carlo Mannino, Oddvar Kloster and Patrick Schittekat

Vehicle sequencing at transshipment terminals with handover relations

Dirk Briskorn, Malte Fliedner and Martin Tschöke

PLENARY SESSION 2
Rubén Ruiz

Simple metaheuristics for flowshop scheduling: all you need is local search
Wednesday, 18
th April, 15:30 - 16:30
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Massimiliano Caramia

THURSDAY, 19th APRIL

PARALLEL SESSION TA1
RCPSP – 2
Thursday, 19
th April, 9:00 - 10:30
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Erwin Pesch

A branch-and-bound procedure for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with partially renewable resources and time windows

Kai Watermeyer* and Jürgen Zimmermann

Scheduling resource-constrained projects with makespan-dependent revenues and costly overtime

Andre Schnabel* and Carolin Kellenbrink

A column generation scheme for the periodically aggregated resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Pierre-Antoine Morin, Christian Artigues and Alain Haďt

PARALLEL SESSION TA2
PROJECT MANAGEMENT – 1
Thursday, 19
th April, 9:00 - 10:30
Room “Salone Pavillon Ripetta”
Chair: Lucio Bianco

An algorithm for schedule delay analysis

Pier Luigi Guida and Giovanni Sacco


The stakeholder perspective: how management of KPIs can support value generation to increase the success rate of complex projects

Massimo Pirozzi


A metamodel approach to projects risk management: outcome of an empirical testing on a set of similar projects

Federico Minelle, Franco Stolfi, Roberto Di Gioacchino and Stefano Santini

PARALLEL SESSION TB1
PRODUCTION PLANNING AND SCHEDULING - 1
Thursday, 19
th April, 11:00 - 13:00
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Jürgen Zimmermann

Energy conscious scheduling of robot moves in dual-gripper robotic cells

Nurdan Tatar, Hakan Gültekin and Sinan Gürel

A new grey-box approach to solve challenging workforce planning and activities scheduling problems

Ludovica Maccarrone* and Stefano Lucidi

A MILP formulation for multi-robot pick-and-place scheduling

Cyril Briand, Jeanine Codou Ndiaye and Rémi Parlouar

Multi-skill project scheduling in a nuclear research facility

Oliver Polo Mejia, Marie-Christine Anselmet, Christian Artigues and Pierre Lopez

PARALLEL SESSION TB2
PARALLEL MACHINE SCHEDULING – 1

Thursday, 19
th April, 11:00 - 13:00
Room “Salone Pavillon Ripetta”
Chair: Rubén Ruiz

A parallel machine scheduling problem with equal processing time jobs, release dates and eligibility constraints

Kangbok Lee and Juntaek Hong

Scheduling identical parallel machines with delivery times to minimize total weighted tardiness

Söhnke Maecker* and Liji Shen

On index policies in stochastic scheduling

Franziska Eberle*, Felix Fischer, Jannik Matuschke and Nicole Megow

Exact methods for large unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems with sequence dependent setup times

Rubén Ruiz, Luis Fanjul-Peyró and Federico Perea

PARALLEL SESSION TB3
OTHER SCHEDULING PROBLEMS
Thursday, 19
th April, 11:00 - 13:00
Room “Salone Esedra”
Chair: Joanna Józefowska

On the complexity of scheduling start time dependent asymmetric convex processing times

Helmut A. Sedding*

Scheduling data gathering with limited base station memory

Joanna Berlinska

A MILP formulation for an operating room scheduling problem under sterilizing activities constraints

Hasan Al Hasan, Christelle Guéret, David Lemoine and David Rivreau

Scheduling Multiple Flexible Projects with Different Variants of Genetic Algorithms

Luise-Sophie Hoffmann* and Carolin Kellenbrink

PLENARY SESSION 3
Erik Demeulemeester

On the construction of optimal policies for the RCPSP with stochastic activity durations

Thursday, 19th April, 14:00 - 15:00
Room “Salone Bernini”

Chair: Joanna Józefowska

PARALLEL SESSION TC1
ASSEMBLY LINE SCHEDULING
Thursday, 19
th April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Ali Allahverdi

Modeling and solving a two-stage assembly scheduling problem with buffers

Carlos Andrés and Julien Maheut

A proactive-reactive approach to schedule an automotive assembly line

Massimo Manzini*, Erik Demeulemeester and Marcello Urgo

Assembly flowshops scheduling problem to minimize maximum tardiness with setup times

Asiye Aydilek, Harun Aydilek and Ali Allahverdi

PARALLEL SESSION TC2
PROJECT MANAGEMENT – 2
Thursday, 19
th April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room “Salone Pavillon Ripetta”
Chair: Stefano Giordani

Applying a cost, resource or risk perspective to improve tolerance limits for project control: an empirical validation

Annelies Martens and Mario Vanhoucke

Integrating case-based analysis and fuzzy programming for decision support in project risk response

Yao Zhang, Fei Zuo and Xin Guan

A chance constrained optimization approach for resource unconstrained project scheduling with uncertainty in activity execution intensity

Lucio Bianco, Massimiliano Caramia and Stefano Giordani

PARALLEL SESSION TC3
JOB SHOP SCHEDULING
Thursday, 19
th April, 15:30 - 17:00
Room “Salone Esedra”
Chair: Jacques Carlier

The cyclic job shop problem with uncertain processing times

Idir Hamaz, Laurent Houssin and Sonia Cafieri

A comparison of neighborhoods for the blocking job-shop problem with total tardiness minimization

Julia Lange

Multi-level tabu search for job scheduling in a variable-resource environment

Nicolas Zufferey

FRIDAY, 20th APRIL

PARALLEL SESSION FA1
SINGLE MACHINE SCHEDULING - 3
Friday, 20
th April, 9:00 - 10:00
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair
: Fayez Fouad Boctor

Fixed interval multiagent scheduling problem with rejected costs

Boukhalfa Zahout, Ameur Soukhal and Patrick Martineau

Single-machine capacitated lot-sizing and scheduling with delivery dates and quantities

Fayez Fouad Boctor

PARALLEL SESSION FA2
VEHICLE ROUTING AND SCHEDULING - 2
Friday, 20th April, 9:00 - 10:00
Room "Salone Pavillon Ripetta"
Chair: Alessandro Agnetis

Synchronizing heterogeneous vehicles in a routing and scheduling context

Marc-Antoine Coindreau, Olivier Gallayand and Nicolas Zufferey

The truck scheduling problem at cross docking terminals: Formulations and valid inequalities

Alessandro Agnetis, Lotte Berghman and Cyril Briand

PARALLEL SESSION FB1
PARALLEL MACHINE SCHEDULING – 2
Friday, 20
th April, 10:30 - 12:30
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Wieslaw Kubiak

Minimizing makespan on parallel batch processing machines

Karim Tamssaouet, Stéphane Dauzčre-Pérčs and Claude Yugma

Unrelated parallel machine scheduling at a TV manufacturer

Ali Ekici, Okan Ozener and Merve Burcu Sarikaya

Modeling non-preemptive parallel scheduling problem with precedence constraints

Tianyu Wang and Odile Bellenguez-Morineau

Scheduling energy-consuming jobs on parallel machines with piecewise-linear costs and storage resources: a lot-sizing and scheduling perspective

Nabil Absi, Christian Artigues, Safia Kedad-Sidhoum, Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu, Janik Rannou and Omar Saadi

PARALLEL SESSION FB2
FLOWSHOPS
Friday, 20
th April, 10:30 - 12:30
Room “Salone Pavillon Ripetta”
Chair: Sigrid Knust

A b&b approach to schedule a no-wait flow shop to minimize the residual work content under uncertainty

Simone Dolceamore and Marcello Urgo

No-wait flowshop scheduling problem to minimize total tardiness subject to makespan

Harun Aydilek, Asiye Aydilek and Ali Allahverdi

A simheuristic for stochastic permutation flow shop problem considering quantitative and qualitative decision criteria

Eliana María Gonzalez-Neira and Jairo R. Montoya-Torres

Synchronous flow shop scheduling with pliable jobs

Matthias Bultmann, Sigrid Knust and Stefan Waldherr

PARALLEL SESSION FB3
PRODUCTION PLANNING AND SCHEDULING – 2
Friday, 20
th April, 10:30 - 12:30
Room “Salone Esedra”
Chair: Mario Vanhoucke

Scheduling a forge with due dates and die deterioration

Olivér Ősz, Balázs Ferenczi and Máté Hegyháti

Production and distribution planning for smoothing supply-chain variability

Marie-Sklaerder Vié, Nicolas Zufferey and Leandro Coelho

Order Acceptance and Scheduling Problem with Batch Delivery

İstenç Tarhan and Ceyda Oğuz

A heuristic procedure to solve the integration of personnel staffing in the project scheduling problem with discrete time/resource trade-offs

Mick Van Den Eeckhout, Mario Vanhoucke and Broos Maenhout

PARALLEL SESSION FC1
RCPSP – 3
Friday, 20
th April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Norbert Trautmann

On some approach to solve a scheduling problem with a continuous doubly-constrained resource

Rafal Rozycki and Grzegorz Waligóra

Development of a schedule cost model for a resource constrained project that incorporates idleness

Babatunde Omoniyi Odedairo and Victor Oluwasina Oladokun

A continuous-time assignment-based MILP formulation for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Norbert Trautmann, Tom Rihm, Nadine Saner and Adrian Zimmermann

PARALLEL SESSION FC2
PROJECT NETWORKS
Friday, 20
th April, 13:30 - 15:00
Room “Salone Pavillon Ripetta”
Chair: Mario Vanhoucke

Modeling techniques for the eS-graph

Máté Hegyháti

An integer linear programming model applied to a decision CPM network

Jose Ramon San Cristobal

Computation of the project completion time distribution in Markovian PERT networks

Jeroen Burgelman and Mario Vanhoucke

PARALLEL SESSION FC3
AGILE PROJECTS
SPEAKERS: GIAN LUCA DI STEFANO AND CLAUDIA SPAGNOLO
Friday, 20
th April, 14:30 - 17:00
Room “Salone Esedra”

PLENARY SESSION 4
Erwin Pesch

Optimization problems in intermodal transport
Friday, 20
th April, 15:00 - 16:00
Room “Salone Bernini”
Chair: Massimiliano Caramia

CLOSING SESSION
Friday, 20
th April, 16:30 - 17:00
Room “Salone Bernini”