CO2000
Conference Program
Wednesday 12 July, 2000

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 9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-11.00
 WA1:
Complexity and Approximation of Scheduling Problems 
Organised and chaired 
by F.C.R. Speiksma
WB1
Assignment
Chair: E. Çela
WC1
Integer Programming:
Chair: B.M. Smith
9.30-10.00  T.Erlebach, F.C.R. Spieksma
Competitive Analysis of a Weighted Interval Scheduling Problem
D. Cattrysse
A Survey of Algorithms for the Generalized Assignment Problem
M. Hadjiat-Guerinik
N. Guerinik
A Successful Combination of Integer Linear Programming and Constraint Programming
10.00-10.30 J. Hurink, S. Knust
Integrating Transport into a Job Shop
R.V. Skomorokhov
Job Shop Scheduling and Assignment Problems: New Approach to Solving
M. Schröder
Balanced Tree Partitioning
10.30-11.00 D.B.C. Faneyte, 
F.C.R. Spieksma, 
G.J. Woeginger
A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for a Crane Scheduling Problem
S. Yan, M. Chen, C.-M. Huo
A Model for Multiple Objective Gate Assignments
M.V. Devyaterikova, 
A.A. Kolokolov
Analysis of L-Structure Stability of a Knapsack Problem
(cancelled)
P. Eveborn, M. Rönnqvist
Solving Hard School Timetabling Problems using Column Generation
(transferred from FC2)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Plenary Talk: 
Thomas Liebling
Hidden Markov Models  for Biomolecular Motif Discrimination
Chair: R.R. Weber
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 WA2
Optimization in Networks 
Organised by B. Fortz
Chair: D.L. Woodruff
WB2
Location and  Routing 
Chair: D.B. Shmoys
WC2
Meta-Heuristics
Chair: J.Hurink
14.00-14.30 C. Feremans, M. Labbé, 
G. Laporte 
Polyhedral Analysis of the Generalized Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
P. Cappanera, G. Gallo, 
F. Maffioli
Discrete Facility Location and Routing of Obnoxious Activities 
K. Steinhöfel, A. Albrecht, 
C.K. Wong
A Problem-Specific Complexity Bound for Job Shop Scheduling
14.30-15.00 M. Gendreau, F.-X. LeLouarn, J.-Y. Potvin
An Ant Colony System Heuristic for the Traveling Salesman Problem
G. Nagy, S. Salhi 
An Integrated Approach To Hub Location
H. Bouziri, K. Mellouli
Tabu Search for the Task Allocation on Parallel Machines
15.00-15.30 S.P.M. van Hoesel,
A.M.C.A. Koster, 
R.L.M.J. van de Leensel, M.W.P. Savelsbergh
Polyhedral Results for the Edge Capacity Polytope
L. Muyldermans, D. Cattrysse, D. Van Oudheusden
A Districting and a Location-
Districting Model for Salt Spreading Operations
A. Vesel, J. Žerovnik
Constant Temperature “Annealing'' is Competitive
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 WA3
Probabilistic Analysis of Algorithms 
Organised and chaired 
by M. Jerrum
WB3
Polyhedral Optimisation
Chair: R.W. Eglese
WC3
Travelling Salesman Problem
Chair: G.J. Woeginger
16.00-16.30 R.R. Weber
The Sum-of-Squares Algorithm for Bin Packing
R.P. Barneva, V.E. Brimkov
On the Knapsack Polytope 
G. Gutin
How to Find A Travelling Salesman Tour Which Is Better Than Many Others
16.30-17.00 A. Frieze
Probabilistic Analysis of Random Travelling Salesman Problems
J.E. Mitchell
Branch-and-cut for the k-way Equipartition Problem
I. Kara, T. Bektas
Derivation of the Miller-Tucker- Zemlin Subtour Elimination
Constraints of the Traveling Salesman Problem
17.00-17.30 M.E. Dyer
Probabilistic Analysis of Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems
A.N. Letchford, R.W. Eglese
Complexity of a Separation Problem
E.Kh. Gimadi, A.I. Serdyukov
Polynomial Approximation Scheme for Asymmetric Polyhedral Max TSP
17.30-18.00 D. Achlioptas, G. Sorkin
Optimal Policies for Greedy 3-SAT Algorithms
F. Bendali, A.R. Mahjoub, 
J. Mailfert
Composition of Graphs and the K_3-Cover Polytope
(cancelled)
V. Deineko
Polynomially Solvable Cases of the Travelling Salesman 
Problem and Heuristic Algorithms