[Time]: 16:00-17:00, May 23, 2012 (Today)

[Place]: Room 510, Shunde Building

[Topic]: Reflections from Five Decades of Scheduling Research: Future Research Directions in Scheduling

[Speaker]: Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta, Eminent Scholar of Management of Technology, College of Business Administration, University of Alabama in Huntsville

[Abstract]: This seminar is designed to provide an excursion into various scheduling problems arising in the manufacturing environment and possible approaches that can be taken to solve some of these problems.  The seminar reviews the scheduling literature in the twentieth century from one specific perspective from one researcher's viewpoint and describes the mental and professional development of one person in understanding the complex field of production management in general and scheduling theory in particular.

This seminar covers the fundamental frameworks of scheduling theory, outlining various approaches that can be taken to solve (optimally or approximately) such problems, and the difficulties arising in their practical use.  Specific detailed techniques of solution algorithms are not be covered in this seminar as they are better discussed in individual encounters.  The approach taken is to identify future research directions in scheduling to help researchers select topics of interest and importance in pursuing their research careers.

[Host]: Dr. Li Zheng