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Due to the restricted resources, efficient scheduling in vertiports has received much more attention in the field of Urban Air Mobility (UAM). For the scheduling problem, we utilize a Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP), which is often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Jeongseok Kim , Kangjin Kim

Machine learning components commonly appear in larger decision-making pipelines; however, the model training process typically focuses only on a loss that measures accuracy between predicted values and ground truth values. Decision-focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Aaron Ferber , Bryan Wilder , Bistra Dilkina , Milind Tambe

This letter explores intelligent scheduling of sensor-to-controller communication in networked control systems, particularly when data transmission incurs a cost. While the optimal controller in a standard linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Zahra Hashemi , Dipankar Maity

The Teacher Assignment Problem is a combinatorial optimization problem that involves assigning teachers to courses while guaranteeing that all courses are covered, teachers do not teach too few or too many hours, teachers do not switch…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Moa Johannesson , Lina Brink , Alvin Combrink , Sabino Francesco Roselli , Martin Fabian

Scheduling is a critical part of practical computer systems, and scheduling has also been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective. Unfortunately, there is a gap between theory and practice, as the optimal scheduling policies…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

In this paper we present a Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming model that we developed as part of a pilot study requested by the R&D company Metrolab in order to design tools for finding solutions for line planning and timetable situations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Víctor Blanco , Eduardo Conde , Yolanda Hinojosa , Justo Puerto

We consider a basic problem of preemptive scheduling of $n$ non-simultaneously released jobs on a group of $m$ unrelated parallel machines so as to minimize maximum job completion time, the makespan. In the scheduling literature, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Nodari Vakhania

We consider the following shared-resource scheduling problem: Given a set of jobs $J$, for each $j\in J$ we must schedule a job-specific processing volume of $v_j>0$. A total resource of $1$ is available at any time. Jobs have a resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Christoph Damerius , Peter Kling , Florian Schneider

We study sequential interval scheduling when task start and end times are random. The set of tasks and their weights are known in advance, while each task's start and end times are drawn from known discrete distributions and revealed only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Rui Gong , Alejandro Toriello

Integer linear programming (ILP) encompasses a very important class of optimization problems that are of great interest to both academia and industry. Several algorithms are available that attempt to explore the solution space of this class…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Fabio L. Traversa , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We study the single machine scheduling problem with the objective to minimize the total weight of late jobs. It is assumed that the processing times of jobs are not exactly known at the time when a complete schedule must be dispatched.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Maciej Drwal

In this paper an algorithm designed for large databases is introduced for the enhancement of pass rates in mathematical university lower division courses with several sections. Using integer programming techniques, the algorithm finds the…

General Economics · Economics 2020-10-09 Fernando A Morales , Cristian C Chica , Carlos A Osorio , Daniel Cabarcas J

We study the course allocation problem, where universities assign course schedules to students. The current state-of-the-art mechanism, Course Match, has one major shortcoming: students make significant mistakes when reporting their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Ermis Soumalias , Behnoosh Zamanlooy , Jakob Weissteiner , Sven Seuken

In this work, the online printing shop scheduling problem is considered. This challenging real problem, that appears in the nowadays printing industry, can be seen as a flexible job shop scheduling problem with sequence flexibility in which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Willian T. Lunardi , Ernesto G. Birgin , Philippe Laborie , Débora P. Ronconi , Holger Voos

Telescope networks are gaining traction due to their promise of higher resource utilization than single telescopes and as enablers of novel astronomical observation modes. However, as telescope network sizes increase, the possibility of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-26 Sotiria Lampoudi , Eric Saunders , Jason Eastman

Integer linear programs (ILPs) are commonly employed to model diverse practical problems such as scheduling and planning. Recently, machine learning techniques have been utilized to solve ILPs. A straightforward idea is to train a model via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Qian Chen , Tianjian Zhang , Linxin Yang , Qingyu Han , Akang Wang , Ruoyu Sun , Xiaodong Luo , Tsung-Hui Chang

We address the thesis defence scheduling problem, a critical academic scheduling management process, which has been overshadowed in the literature by its counterparts, course timetabling and exam scheduling. Specifically, the single defence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-17 João Almeida , Daniel Rebelo dos Santos , José Rui Figueira

We introduce the Scheduling.jl Julia package, which is intended for collaboratively conducting scheduling research and for sharing implementations of algorithms. It provides the fundamental building blocks for implementing scheduling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Sascha Hunold , Bartłomiej Przybylski

The scheduling problem is a key class of optimization problems and has various kinds of applications both in practical and theoretical scenarios. In the scheduling problem, probabilistic analysis is a basic tool for investigating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daiki Suruga

In scenarios that require teamwork, we usually have at hand a variety of specific tasks, for which we need to form a team in order to carry out each one. Here we target the problem of matching teams with tasks within the context of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Athina Georgara , Carles Sierra , Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar