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Ph.D. position in Operations Research (PHD-OR-2022)

Motivated by a widespread trend towards outsourcing, this thesis aims at studying scheduling models in which one or several external resources have to be rented in order to complete a given set of tasks. Depending on the concrete scheduling objective (e.g., weighted sum of competition time, total tardiness etc.), the number of resources to be considered, and structural assumptions on the requirement relation between tasks and resources, such models incur an additional degree of complexity. In particular, next to the sequence in which tasks are completed, the rental period for each resource has to be determined so as to balance the rental cost and the effectiveness of the schedule. The goal of this thesis is to devise algorithms that help decision makers navigate this trade-off by efficiently computing (near-)optimal schedules and rental periods for external resources.

Date:22 Sep 2022 →  Today
Keywords:scheduling
Disciplines:Operations research and mathematical programming
Project type:PhD project