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Three new publications of the chair

We are pleased about three new publications that have recently appeared with the participation of our chair!

In collaboration with Tristan Becker and Udo Buscher (both TU Dresden), the article “The distributed flow store scheduling problem with inter-factory transportation” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.10.026) was published in the renowned European Journal of Operational Research (VHB Rating A). We investigate the influence of transportation in manufacturing networks and develop efficient solution methods for machine scheduling.

The Journal of Scheduling is the most important scientific journal in the field of scheduling (also VHB Rating A) and published the paper by Julius Hoffmann (KIT Karlsruhe), Janis Neufeld and Udo Buscher (TU Dresden) entitled “Minimizing the earliness-tardiness for the customer order scheduling problem in a dedicated machine environment” (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-024-00814-z). It deals with the practically relevant customer order scheduling problem, in which several orders are produced for a customer and punctual completion is to be ensured.

Both publications are freely available as open access articles.

In addition, together with the project partners of the VIPES project (TU Dresden, University of Vienna, ÖBB Produktion GmbH, dwh GmbH), the article “Zielkonflikte in der Umlaufplanung für Triebfahrzeuge” was published in the journal Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau, which appeals to a broad audience in practice and science. In the article, we discuss the various objectives of rail vehicle scheduling and identify relevant trade-offs between them.

Prof. Dr. Neufeld was awarded the faculty's teaching prize at the 2024 graduation ceremony for his outstanding commitment to the Bachelor's degree courses.

The FWW Teaching Prize (1st place) was awarded for the lecture “Production, Logistics and Operations Research” after evaluating the assessments of students with regard to the summer semester 2024.

Also awarded (2nd place) was the exercise “Production, Logistics and Operations Research”, which was held by Caroline Ihloff (employee at the Chair of Management Science).

Congratulations!

After Ms. Aheli Das and Ms. Ornela Sahatciu joined the team of Prof. Janis S. Neufeld and Ms. Jana Tuchen as research assistants in September, Mr. Hendrik Busmann also started his work as a research assistant at the beginning of October. As of the beginning of November, our team is supported by Ms. Jasmin Grund as a student assistant.