Katarína Cechlárová, Ágnes Cseh, Zsuzsanna Jankó, Marián Kireš, Lukáš Miňo
{"title":"A quest for a fair schedule: The International Young Physicists' Tournament.","authors":"Katarína Cechlárová, Ágnes Cseh, Zsuzsanna Jankó, Marián Kireš, Lukáš Miňo","doi":"10.1007/s10951-022-00752-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-022-00752-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The International Young Physicists' Tournament is an established team-oriented scientific competition between high school students from 37 countries on 5 continents. The competition consists of scientific discussions called Fights. Three or four teams participate in each Fight, while rotating the roles of Presenter, Opponent, Reviewer, and Observer among them. The rules of a few countries require that each team announces in advance three problems they will present at the regional tournament. The task of the organizers is to choose the composition of Fights in such a way that each team presents each of its chosen problems exactly once and within a single Fight no problem is presented more than once. Besides formalizing these feasibility conditions, in this paper we formulate several additional fairness criteria for tournament schedules. We show that the fulfillment of some of them can be ensured by constructing suitable edge colorings in bipartite graphs. To find fair schedules, we propose integer linear programs and test them on real as well as randomly generated data.</p>","PeriodicalId":50061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scheduling","volume":"26 1","pages":"3-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514718/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10776579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single machine scheduling with step-learning","authors":"Matan Atsmony, Baruch Mor, G. Mosheiov","doi":"10.1007/s10951-022-00763-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-022-00763-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scheduling","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49297345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimizing the expected waiting time of emergency jobs","authors":"Arne Schulz, Malte Fliedner","doi":"10.1007/s10951-022-00767-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-022-00767-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scheduling","volume":"26 1","pages":"147 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52494627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to charge while driving: scheduling point-to-point deliveries of an electric vehicle under overhead wiring","authors":"N. Boysen, Dirk Briskorn, Stefan Schwerdfeger","doi":"10.1007/s10951-022-00758-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-022-00758-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scheduling","volume":"26 1","pages":"19 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46938908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue on papers from the 2019 Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems","authors":"S. Khuller","doi":"10.1007/s10951-022-00765-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-022-00765-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scheduling","volume":"26 1","pages":"411 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47160147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An improved approximation algorithm for a scheduling problem with transporter coordination","authors":"Yinling Wang, Xin Han, Yong Zhang, J. Błażewicz","doi":"10.1007/s10951-022-00762-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-022-00762-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scheduling","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45386097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tal Grinshpoun, E. Shufan, H. Ilani, V. Levit, H. Brama
{"title":"Graph representation of the fixed route dial-a-ride problem","authors":"Tal Grinshpoun, E. Shufan, H. Ilani, V. Levit, H. Brama","doi":"10.1007/s10951-022-00757-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-022-00757-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Scheduling","volume":"26 1","pages":"479 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46648599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}