Program
Tuesday, July 18
13:00–13:30
Opening session
13:30–14:30
Keynote speech
K1: Gate scheduling at airports
Erwin Pesch
14:40–15:40
Technical session 1A: Combinatorial optimization
1A1: Scheduling of corrugated paper production
Kazuki Matsumoto, Hiroyoshi Miwa and Toshihide Ibaraki
1A2: An improved approximation algorithm for capacitated multicast routings in networks
Ehab Morsy and Hiroshi Nagamochi
Technical session 1B: Manufacturing systems
1B1: A study on integrated process planning and scheduling system for holonic manufacturingsystems — Modification of process plans —Nobuhiro Sugimura, Rajesh Shrestha, Yoshitaka Tanimizu and Koji Iwamura
1B2: Life analysis of modules reuse for circulation production
Yong Ji, Hirohisa Narita, Lian-yi Chen and Hideo FujimotoCoffee break
16:10–17:40
Technical session 2A: Application and practice 1
2A1: Sedan shift scheduling model
Yihua Li
2A2: Subcontractors scheduling on residential buildings construction sites
Thierry Benoist, Antoine Jeanjean, Guillaume Rochart, Hadrien Cambazard, Emilie
Grellier and Narendra Jussien
2A3: Development of a shipbuilding scheduling system utilizing a weighted constraint satisfaction problem solver
Takuya Nishimura, Yukihiro Nakama, Masayasu Matsuda and Yuki Makino
Technical session 2B: Vehicle scheduling and communication
2B1: A DP-based heuristic algorithm for the discrete split derivery vehicle routing problem
Yoshitaka Nakao and Hiroshi Nagamochi
2B2: Hierarchical approach with informational feedback for pickup and delivery problems
Kazutoshi Sakakibara, Manabu Noishiki, Shinya Watanabe, Hisashi Tamaki and Ikuko
Nishikawa
2B3: A novel design aid for scheduling policy toward seamless future-oriented land vehiclesatellite communications
Masato Takahashi
18:00–19:30
Reception

Wednesday, July 19
9:00–10:00
Technical session 3A: Scheduling under uncertainty 1
3A1: Dynamic robust set of approximate nondominated solutions under scenarios
Hiroyuki Nagasawa, Masahide Kawasaki and Kazuko Morizawa
3A2: Online rescheduling in semiconductor manufacturing
Mingang Cheng, Masao Sugi, Jun Ota, Masashi Yamamoto, Hiroki Ito and Kazuyoshi
Inoue
Technical session 3B: Virtual factory
3B1: A basic study on cost based lot sizing — Experiments with distributed virtual factory —Kentaro Sashio, Susumu Fujii, Toshiya Kaihara and Shinya Inao
3B2: Manufacturing cell simulation environment synchronising real equipment and virtualfactory model
Toshihiro Inukai, Hironori Hibino and Yoshiro Fukuda
10:10–11:10
Technical session 4A: Scheduling under uncertainty 2
4A1: Robust scheduling under uncertainty in processing time
Keisuke Murakami and Hiroshi Morita
4A2: A formal model for reactive scheduling problems
Satoshi Sugikawa, Haruhiko Suwa and Hisashi Tamaki
Technical session 4B: Genetic algorithm and Agent based-system
4B1: Development of new encoding method for the CPS
Al-Momani Abd Al-Rahman, Jaber E. Abu Qudeiri and Hidehiko Yamamoto
4B2: Work scheduling by use of worker model in consideration of learning by on-the-job
training
Toshitake Tateno and Keiko Shimizu
Coffee break
11:40–12:40
Keynote speech
K2: Production scheduling to decrease transportation costs
Kathryn E. SteckeLunch14:10–15:40
Technical session 5A: Application and practice 2
5A1: Supply chain management of the iron and steel industry
Mitsushige Shiota
5A2: Simultaneous optimization of storage allocation and routing problems for belt-conveyor
transportation
Masatoshi Ago, Masami Konishi and Tatsushi Nishi
5A3: Genetic algorithm with reduction of search space using operational constraints and its
application to scheduling system for steelmaking process
Satoshi Fujii, Shinji Tomiyama and Ryosuke Kimura
Technical session 5B: Packing problem
5B1: A guided local search algorithm based on a fast neighborhood search for the irregular
strip packing problem
Shunji Umetani, Mutsunori Yagiura, Takashi Imamichi, Shinji Imahori, Koji Nonobe
and Toshihide Ibaraki
5B2: An iterated local search algorithm based on nonlinear programming for the irregular
strip packing problem
Takashi Imamichi, Mutsunori Yagiura and Hiroshi Nagamochi
5B3: Learning human skills instead of solving optimisation problems: A packing problem
exampleBlagovest Vladimirov, Hiromi Mochiyama and Hideo Fujimoto
Coffee break
16:10–17:40
Technical session 6A: Machine and shop scheduling 1
6A1: Scheduling in a two-machine flowshop for the minimization of the sum of absolute deviations from a common due date
Celso Satoshi Sakuraba and Debora P. Ronconi
6A2: A branch-and-bound algorithm based on Lagrangian relaxation for single-machinescheduling
Shunji Tanaka, Shuji Fujikuma and Mituhiko Araki
Technical session 6B: General model for scheduling and assignment problem
6B1: Decomposition of Petri nets for solving general scheduling problems
Tatsushi Nishi, Ryota Maeno and Masami Konishi
6B2: An iterated local search algorithm for the multi-resource generalized assignment problem with flexible assignment cost
Toshihide Ibaraki, Akihiro Ishikawa, Hiroshi Nagamochi, Koji Nonobe and Mutsunori
Yagiura6B3: A unified modeling and solution principle for fine scheduling
Kenji Muramatsu
18:00–19:30
BanquetThursday, July 20
9:00–10:00

Technical session 7A: Machine and shop scheduling 2
7A1: Real-time machine scheduling with variable durations
Yihua Li
7A2: A heuristic scheduling algorithm for multi-stage job-shop process with crane handling
Takashi Tanizaki, Takayoshi Tamura, Hideaki Sakai, Yutaka Takahashi and Taichi Imai
Technical session 7B: Supply chain
7B1: Evolutional optimization on material ordering and inventory control of supply chain
through incentive scheme
Kanit Prasetwattana, Yoshiaki Shimizu and Navee Chiadamrong
7B2: Proposal of collaboration in supply chain for implementing mass customization
Shimpei Matsumoto, Nobuyuki Ueno, Koji Okuhara and Hiroaki Ishii
10:10–11:10
Technical session 8A: Production control
8A1: Multiagent based production control to prevent capacity loss during failures
Rajesh Gautam and Kazuo Miyashita
8A2: Base stock policy in a join-type production line with advanced demand information
Mikihiko Hiraiwa, Satoshi Tsubouchi and Koichi Nakade
Technical session 8B: Customer orientation
8B1: Production planning system for implementing mass customization by using particleswarm optimization
Eri Domoto, Koji Okuhara, Nobuyuki Ueno and Hiroaki Ishii
8B2: Proposed method for recommending goods using a mathematical planning model
Masahiko Ishino, Naokazu Yamaki, Teruhisa Ichikawa and Tadanori Mizuno
11:20–12:20
Keynote speech
K3: Cyclic machine scheduling: A general frameworkPeter Brucker and Thomas Kampmeyer
12:20–12:30
Closing session