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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

Scheduling jobs with given processing times on identical parallel machines so as to minimize their total completion time is one of the most basic scheduling problems. We study interesting generalizations of this classical problem involving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Thomas Bosman , Martijn van Ee , Ekin Ergen , Csanad Imreh , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Martin Skutella , Leen Stougie

This paper develops a data-driven, constraint-based optimization framework for a complex industrial job shop scheduling problem variant in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The formulation captures fixed routings and designated machines,…

Answer Set Programming (ASP) has become, the paradigm of choice in the field of logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. Thanks to the availability of efficient solvers, ASP has been successfully employed in a large number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Agostino Dovier , Andrea Formisano , Flavio Vella

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

The optimal robot assembly planning problem is challenging due to the necessity of finding the optimal solution amongst an exponentially vast number of possible plans, all while satisfying a selection of constraints. Traditionally, robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kartik Nagpal , Negar Mehr

We consider the $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem $\mathrm{P} \mathbf{\vert} \mathrm{pmtn, setup=s_i} \mathbf{\vert} \mathrm{C_{\max}}$, the problem of scheduling $n$ jobs, which are divided into $c$ classes, on $m$ identical parallel machines…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Max A. Deppert , David Fischer , Klaus Jansen

Payroll management is a critical business task that is subject to a large number of rules, which vary widely between companies, sectors, and countries. Moreover, the rules are often complex and change regularly. Therefore, payroll…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Benjamin Callewaert , Joost Vennekens

Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a declarative programming paradigm based on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. It is a tremendously powerful tool for describing and solving combinatorial problems. Like any other language, ASP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Connar Hite , Sean Saud , Raef Taha , Nayim Rahman , Tanvir Atahary , Scott Douglass , Tarek Taha

We consider a natural extension of online makespan scheduling on identical parallel machines by introducing scenarios. A scenario is a subset of jobs, and the task of our problem is to find a global assignment of the jobs to machines so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ekin Ergen

In the era of Industry 4.0, the focus is on the minimization of human element and maximizing the automation in almost all the industrial and manufacturing establishments. These establishments contain numerous processing systems, which can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Prashant K Gupta , Pranab K. Muhuri

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased their potential in various natural language processing tasks, including code generation. However, while significant progress has been made in adapting LLMs to generate code for several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Erica Coppolillo , Francesco Calimeri , Giuseppe Manco , Simona Perri , Francesco Ricca

This study is concerned with the determination of optimal appointment times for a sequence of jobs with uncertain duration. We investigate the data-driven Appointment Scheduling Problem (ASP) when one has $n$ observations of $p$ features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Nima Salehi Sadghiani , Saeid Motiian

Magnetic tapes have been playing a key role as means for storage of digital data for decades, and their unsurpassed cost-effectiveness still make them the technology of choice in several industries, such as media and entertainment. Tapes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Carlos Cardonha , Lucas C. Villa Real

We tackle the problem of automatically designing concurrent data structure operations given a sequential data structure specification and knowledge about concurrent behavior. Designing concurrent code is a non-trivial task even in simplest…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Sarat Chandra Varanasi , Neeraj Mittal , Gopal Gupta

We consider scheduling two types of jobs (A-job and B-job) to $p$ machines and minimizing their makespan. A group of same type of jobs processed consecutively by a machine is called a batch. For machine $v$, processing $x$ A-jobs in a batch…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Song Cao , Kai Jin

The problem of scheduling non-simultaneously released jobs with due dates on a single machine with the objective to minimize the maximum job lateness is known to be strongly NP-hard. Here we consider an extended model in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Nodari Vakhania , Frank Werner , Alejandro Reynoso

This work addresses the uniform parallel machine scheduling problem within an optimistic bilevel optimization framework. The leader seeks to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while the follower aims to minimize the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Quentin Schau , Federico Della Croce , Olivier Ploton , Vincent t'Kindt

We consider the problem of scheduling a set of jobs on a set of identical parallel machines, with the aim of minimizing the total weighted completion time. The problem has been solved in the literature with a number of mathematical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Arthur Kramer , Mauro Dell'Amico , Manuel Iori

We consider different online algorithms for a generalized scheduling problem for parallel machines, described in details in the first section. This problem is the generalization of the classical parallel machine scheduling problem, when the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Istvan Szalkai , Gyorgy Dosa