Course Project

• Report on the real scheduling issues faced by a particular company, organization, or industry.
• Identify a particular scheduling problem faced by a company or organization, and report on the methods used to solve that problem.
• Identify a particular scheduling problem faced by a company or organization, and propose your own solution to that scheduling problem. Compare your solution to the current solution.
• Pick a scheduling problem studied in class, and perform computational experiments. For example, you could compare two solution methods for the same problem, or see how different types of data lead to different types of solutions.
• Pick an NP-hard scheduling problem studied in class and evaluate different solution methods, comparing time vs. quality of solution.
• Pick a scheduling problem not studied in class, propose a solution, and perform either a computational or analytical evaluation of your solutions.
• Read research paper(s) on scheduling and report on what you learned.
• Attempt to solve an open problem in scheduling and report on the progress that you make.

Important Dates

• A 1 page project proposal is due by 4PM on March 28.
• You must make an 8-10 minutes inclass presentation on April 30. Please have your written materials prepared before class, either as sheets of paper to project, or as a computer presentation. If you are using the computer, be sure that your files are easily accessible before class starts at 10:30.
• The written project is due on May 6 at 12 noon.

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