| Week | Date | Topics | Reading | HW assigned | HW due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/20, 1/22 | Introduction, Administration, examples of scheduling problems, role of scheduling, classification of scheduling problems, complexity | Chapters 1, 2 | HW 1 | - |
| 2 | 1/27, 1/29 | Single machine problems: simple dispatching rules | Chapter 3 | HW 2 | HW 1 |
| 3 | 2/3, 2/5 | Single machine problems: real-time scheduling, NP-hard scheduling problems, branch-and-bound | Chapter 3, Appendix B, Appendix C | HW 3 | HW 2 |
| 4 | 2/10, 2/12 | Single machine problems: NP-hard scheduling problems, dynamic programming, approximations | HW 4 | HW 3 | |
| 5 | 2/17, 2/19 | Parallel machine problems: minimizing schedule length | Chapter 5 | HW 5 | HW 4 |
| 6 | 2/24, 2/26 | Parallel machine problems: precedence constraints, heterogeneous environments | HW 6 | HW 5 | |
| 7 | 3/2, 3/4 | Parallel machine problems: average completion time | Chapter 5 | HW 6 | |
| 8 | 3/9, 3/11 | Project Scheduling, MIDTERM | - | - | - |
| 9 | 3/23, 3/25 | Flow shop scheduling | Chapter 6 | HW 7 | - |
| 10 | 3/30, 4/1 | Job shop scheduling | Chapter 7 | HW 8 | HW 7 |
| 11 | 4/8 | Lekin, Open shop sheduling, Scheduling in Transportation | Chapter 7 , handout | HW 9 | HW 8 |
| 12 | 4/13, 4/15 | Stochastic models | Chapter 9 | HW 10 | HW 9 |
| 13 | 4/20, 4/22 | stochastic scheduling, General Heuristics, Scheduling in Sports and Entertainment | Chapter 10 | HW 10 | |
| 14 | 4/27,4/29 | Student presentations | - | - | |
| 5/13, 9AM, 833 Mudd | FINAL EXAM |