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Serial pattern mining consists in extracting the frequent sequential patterns from a unique sequence of itemsets. This paper explores the ability of a declarative language, such as Answer Set Programming (ASP), to solve this issue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Thomas Guyet , Yves Moinard , René Quiniou

This paper presents an Answer Set Programming (ASP)-based framework for medical appointment scheduling, aimed at improving efficiency, reducing administrative overhead, and enhancing patient-centered care. The framework personalizes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Alina Vozna , Andrea Monaldini , Stefania Costantini , Valentina Pitoni , Dawid Pado

Answer set programming (ASP) aims to realize the AI vision: The user specifies the problem, and the computer solves it. Indeed, ASP has made this vision true in many application domains. However, will current ASP solving techniques scale up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Veronika Semmelrock , Gerhard Friedrich

This article presents an overview of a research study of a crucial optimization problem in the Computer Science/Operations research field: The Job-shop Scheduling Problem (JSP). The JSP is a challenging task in which a set of operations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Mohammed M. S. El-Kholany

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming language used for modeling and solving complex combinatorial problems. It has been successfully applied to a number of different realworld problems. However, learning its usage can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Rafael Martins , Matthias Knorr , Ricardo Gonçalves

In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic customer arrival and service times, we seek a policy for switching…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Daria Terekhov , J. Christopher Beck

We consider the robust permutation flowshop problem under the budgeted uncertainty model, where at most a given number of job processing times may deviate on each machine. We show that solutions for this problem can be determined by solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Noam Goldberg , Danny Hermelin , Dvir Shabtay

We study flow shop scheduling with stochastic reentry, where jobs must complete multiple passes through the entire shop, and the number of passes that a job requires for completion is drawn from a discrete probability distribution. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Maximilian von Aspern , Felix Buld , Michael Pinedo

Job scheduling is a well-known Combinatorial Optimization problem with endless applications. Well planned schedules bring many benefits in the context of automated systems: among others, they limit production costs and waste. Nevertheless,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Giovanni Bonetta , Davide Zago , Rossella Cancelliere , Andrea Grosso

The job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) remains a significant hurdle in optimizing production processes. This challenge involves efficiently allocating jobs to a limited number of machines while minimizing factors like total processing time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Henrik Abgaryan , Ararat Harutyunyan , Tristan Cazenave

We study a single-machine scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times, motivated by applications in manufacturing and service industries - in particular, the calendering stage in rubber flooring production. In this phase, setup…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Dominik Leib , Till Heller , Raphael Kühn

Machine scheduling problems involving conflict jobs can be seen as a constrained version of the classical scheduling problem, in which some jobs are conflict in the sense that they cannot be proceeded simultaneously on different machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Minh Hoàng Hà , Dinh Quy Ta , Trung Thanh Nguyen

Parallel machine scheduling has been extensively studied in the past decades, with applications ranging from production planning to job processing in large computing clusters. In this work we study some of these fundamental optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Yael Mordechai

Flexible job shop scheduling has been noticed as an effective manufacturing system to cope with rapid development in today's competitive environment. Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) is known as a NP-hard problem in the field of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Sayedmohammadreza Vaghefinezhad , Kuan Yew Wong

The problem of scheduling conflicting jobs on parallel machines consists in assigning a set of jobs to a set of machines so that no two conflicting jobs are allocated to the same machine, and the maximum processing time among all machines…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Phablo F. S. Moura , Roel Leus , Hande Yaman

Priority queues are fundamental abstract data structures, often used to manage limited resources in parallel programming. Several proposed parallel priority queue implementations are based on skiplists, harnessing the potential for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Irina Calciu , Hammurabi Mendes , Maurice Herlihy

A fundamental question in systems biology is the construction and training to data of mathematical models. Logic formalisms have become very popular to model signaling networks because their simplicity allows us to model large systems…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-12-27 Santiago Videla , Carito Guziolowski , Federica Eduati , Sven Thiele , Niels Grabe , Julio Saez-Rodriguez , Anne Siegel

Over the past few years, self-attention is shining in the field of deep learning, especially in the domain of natural language processing(NLP). Its impressive effectiveness, along with ubiquitous implementations, have aroused our interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mingfei Yu , Masahiro Fujita

Preference handling and optimization are indispensable means for addressing non-trivial applications in Answer Set Programming (ASP). However, their implementation becomes difficult whenever they bring about a significant increase in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-29 Martin Gebser , Roland Kaminski , Torsten Schaub

We propose three novel mathematical optimization formulations that solve the same two-type heterogeneous multiprocessor scheduling problem for a real-time taskset with hard constraints. Our formulations are based on a global scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Mason Thammawichai , Eric C. Kerrigan