Class Number | Date | Topics | Reading | HW assigned | HW due |
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1 | 1/22 | Introduction, Administration, examples of scheduling problems, role of scheduling, classification of scheduling problems, complexity | Chapters 1, 2 | HW 1 | - |
2 | 1/29 | Single machine problems: simple dispatching rules | Chapter 3 | HW 2 | HW 1 |
3 | 2/5 | Single machine problems: real-time scheduling, dynamic programming | Chapter 3 | HW 3 | HW 2 |
4 | 2/12 | Single machine problems: NP-hard scheduling problems, approximations | HW 4 | HW 3 | |
5 | 2/19 | Parallel machine problems: minimizing schedule length | Chapter 5 | HW 5 | HW 4 |
6 | 2/26 | Parallel machine problems: precedence constraints, heterogeneous environments | HW 6 | HW 5 | |
7 | 3/5 | Parallel machine problems: average completion time | Chapter 5 | HW 6 | |
8 | 3/12 | MIDTERM | - | - | - |
9 | 3/26 | Flow shop scheduling | Chapter 6 | HW 7 | - |
10 | 4/2 | Flow shop scheduling | HW 8 | HW 7 | |
11 | 4/9 | Job shop scheduling, Open shop sheduling | Chapter 7 | HW 9 | HW 8 |
12 | 4/16 | Stochastic models | Chapter 9 | HW 10 | HW 9 |
13 | 4/23 | Stochastic models: single and parallel machines | Chapter 10 | HW 10 | |
14 | 4/30 | Student presentations | - | - |