| Week | Date | Topics | Reading | HW assigned | HW due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/22 (no class 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 D, Appendix E | HW 3 | HW 2 |
| 4 | 2/10 2/12 | Single machine problems: NP-hard scheduling problems, dynamic programming, approximations | Chapter 3, Appendix B | 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 | Chapter 5 | HW 6 | HW 5 |
| 7 | 3/3 3/5 | Parallel machine problems: average completion time | Chapter 5 | HW 6 | |
| 8 | 3/10, 3/12 | Project Scheduling, MIDTERM | - | - | - |
| 9 | 3/24, 3/26 | Flow shop scheduling | Chapter 6 | HW 7 | - |
| 10 | 3/31, 4/2 | Job shop scheduling | Chapter 7 | HW 8 | HW 7 |
| 11 | 4/7 (no class 4/9) | Lekin, Open shop sheduling, Scheduling in Transportation | Chapter 7 , handout | HW 9 | HW 8 |
| 12 | 4/14, 4/16 | Stochastic models | Chapter 9, 10 | HW 10 | HW 9 |
| 13 | 4/21, 4/23 | stochastic scheduling, General Heuristics | Chapter 14, 15 | HW 10 | |
| 14 | 4/28, 4/30 | Student presentations | - | - | |
| Final | 5/12, 9AM |