ECAI-2000 Workshop on
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, August 21, 2000
| Schedule |
9.00 Opening
9.15 Invited Talk
«Meta-Heuristics: State of the Art» by Stefan Voß
10.15 Technical Session
«Solving the Sports League Scheduling Problem with Tabu Search» by Jean-Philippe Hamiez and Jin-Kao Hao
10.40 Coffee Break
11.00 Technical Session
«Problem Difficulty and Fitness Landscapes of Structured and Random Job-Shop Problems: What Do Existing Analysis Techniques Really Tell Us?» by Jean-Paul Watson
«Iterative Flattening: A Scalable Method for Solving Multi-Capacity Scheduling Problems» by Amedeo Cesta, Angelo Oddi and Stephen F. Smith
11.50 Roundtable Discussion: Which Search Techniques and Neighborhoods are Useful for Planning & Scheduling?
Moderators: Bruno De Backer and Stefan Voß
Initial Statements: Amedeo Cesta and Jean-Paul Watson
12.50 Lunch
13.50 Technical Session
«Incremental local search for planning problems» by Eva Onaindia, Laura Sebastia and Eliseo Marzal
«An Empirical Analysis of Local Search in Stochastic Optimization for Planner Strategy Selection» by Barbara Engelhardt and Steve Chien
«An Empirical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Local Search for Replanning» by Steve Chien, Russell Knight and Gregg Rabideau
15.05 Coffee Break
15.30 Technical Session
«Board-laying Techniques Improve Local Search in Mixed Planning and Scheduling» by Russell Knight, Gregg Rabideau and Steve Chien
15.55 Roundtable Discussion: Integration of Planning and Scheduling
Moderators: Ari K. Jonsson and Angelo Oddi
Initial Statements: Alexander Nareyek and Kanna Rajan
17.00 End of Workshop
17.00-17.30 Demo: ILOG's New Products for Local Search
Last update:
August 10, 2000 by Alexander Nareyek