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Monday, April 13, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Master class welcome (Main Hall) | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | "Basics of Constraint Programming for Scheduling and Application to Space" (Salle de Conférences) - Cédric Pralet, ONERA, Toulouse, France | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break (Main Hall) | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | "Global Scheduling Constraints" (Salle de Conférences) - Margaux Nattaf, G-SCOP, Grenoble, France | |
| 12:30 - 13:45 | Lunch (Main Hall) | |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | "A tutorial on Tempo, a Hybrid CP/SAT solver" (Salle de Conférences) - Emmanuel Hébrard, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France | |
| 14:45 - 16:00 | PMS Hackathon (Salle de Conférences) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break (Main Hall) | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | PMS Hackathon (Salle de Conférences) | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Welcome Cocktail (Main Hall) |
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | PMS 2026 Welcome & Opening (Salle de Conférences) | |
| 09:00 - 10:20 | A - Project scheduling (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › A generalization of Hu's algorithm for resource leveling - Peter Gyorgyi, HUN-REN SZTAKI | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | › Analyzing Criticalities on Project Networks with Feeding Precedence Relations - Massimiliano Caramia, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata [Roma, Italia] = University of Rome Tor Vergata [Rome, Italy] = Université de Rome Tor Vergata [Rome, Italie] | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › Enhancing continuous-time MILP models for resource-constrained project scheduling with workload-based constraints - Nicklas Klein, Department of Business Administration, University of Bern | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › The Role of Correlations Between Activity Durations in Project Schedule Risk Analysis - Fernando Acebes, GIR INSISOC – University of Valladolid | |
| 09:00 - 10:20 | B - Constraint programming #1 (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › Parallel machine scheduling for PCB assembly with precedence, setup times and uncertain machine speeds: a proactive-reactive approach | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | › Resource-Constrained Assembly Line Balancing Problem with Learning Effect and Fixed Adjustment Periods: A CP Approach | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › Multi-valued decision diagram integration method applied for a specific parallel machine problem - Hugo Apeloig, IMT Atlantique | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › Logic-based Benders Method for Multi-Skill Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling with Allocation and Skill Flexibility - Carla Juvin, Toulouse Business School | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break (Main Hall) | |
| 10:50 - 12:10 | C - Mixed-integer linear programming (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | › Scheduling of Star Observations under Uncertain Conditions: A Comparison of Models and Solvers - Thomas Rahab Lacroix, Groupe Recherche Opérationnelle de Grenoble | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › The Unreliable Job Selection and Sequencing Problem - Emmeline Perneel, Operations Research and Business Statistics | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Branch-and-Price for Job-Shop Scheduling with Time-Dependent Costs and Cardinality Constraints - Marouane FELLOUSSI, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Zuse Institute Berlin | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Mixed-Integer Programming for the Resource Investment Problem with Gap-Free Processing Requirements - Jonas Saupe, Forschungzentrum Informatik | |
| 10:50 - 12:10 | D - Heuristics and metaheuristics #1 (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | › A novel scheduling technique for NPV improvement of resource-constrained project scheduling problem with discounted cash flows - YUQIN AN, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › Heuristic approaches for solving a bilevel parallel machine scheduling problem - Quentin Schau, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours, Politecnico di Torino, DIGEP | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | › Initial-Solution Sampling for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem : Fitness-Landscape Analysis - Essognim Richard Wilouwou, Université Bretagne Sud, Lab-STICC | |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | › Using Simulated Annealing for Solving Reentrant Permutation Flow Shop Problems - Itamar Segal, Ariel University | |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch (Main Hall) | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Plenary Session #1 (Salle de Conférences) - Norbert Trautmann | |
| 14:35 - 15:55 | E - Machine Scheduling #1 (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 14:35 - 14:55 | › Fairness in Repetitive Scheduling - Survey of Results and Future Challenges - Dvir Shabtay, Ben-Gurion University of Negev | |
| 14:55 - 15:15 | › Optimistic bilevel scheduling with job selection on a single machine and maximum lateness minimization - Vincent T'kindt, T'kindt, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours | |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | › Scheduling a single parallel-batching machine with Run-to-Run constraints - Fan Yang, School of Finance and Business, Shanghai Normal University - Xiajie Yi, IESEG school of management | |
| 15:55 - 15:35 | › A new formulation for parallel machine scheduling with conflicts - Roel Leus, KULeuven | |
| 14:35 - 16:15 | F - Project Management (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 14:35 - 14:55 | › Project Tightness (PT): A Complementary Topological Indicator for Explaining Project Schedule Behaviour - Fernando Acebes, GIR INSISOC. School of Industrial Engineering, University of Valladolid, Spain | |
| 14:55 - 15:15 | › An interaction-oriented action decision model for project control under budget constraints - Yuxuan Song, Ghent University | |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | › BALANCING HUMAN & AGENTIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT: AUTONOMY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY - Arik Sadeh, Holon Institut of Technology | |
| 15:35 - 15:55 | › Extended application of Kalman Filter Forecasting Method (KFFM) under increasing uncertainty | |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | › Improving Earned Duration Management (EDM) Forecasting Accuracy Using a CHAID-Based Classification Framework - Amin Azimi, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University - Mario Vanhoucke, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Operations and Technology Management Centre, Vlerick Business School, Reep 1, 9000 Ghent, UCL School of Management, University College London | |
| 15:55 - 16:25 | Coffee break (Main Hall) | |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Social Event |
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:30 - 09:50 | G - Complexity and approximation (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 08:30 - 08:50 | › Complexity analysis for the EVCSP with active charger Constraints - Arthur Mazeyrat, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours | |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | › Single machine scheduling of low-frequency radio-astronomical observations - Maher Mallem, Centre Inria de Lyon, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme | |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | › Moderate Exponential-time Quantum Dynamic Programming 1 Across the Subsets for one machine Scheduling Problems - Eric Bourreau, Laboratoire dÍnformatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | › A New Parameterized Complexity Analysis for Scheduling Precedence-Constrained Tasks on Parallel Machines - Claire HANEN, université paris nanterre, LIP6 - Alix Munier-Kordon, LIP6 - İstenç Tarhan, University College Dublin | |
| 08:30 - 09:50 | H - Constraint programming #2 (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 08:30 - 08:50 | › A constraint programming model for the cyclic aerospace line balancing problem | |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | › A two-stage approach for radiotherapy scheduling - Hugues Rauwel, Argumentation, Décision, Raisonnement, Incertitude et Apprentissage, Équipe Recherche Opérationnelle, Optimisation Combinatoire et Contraintes | |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | › Interpretability of optimization solutions in preventive maintenance rescheduling - Liwen ZHANG, Berger-Levrault et Centre Génie Industriel, Université de Toulouse-IMT Mines Albi | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | › A three-phases matheuristic for the SALB3PM problem - Matthieu Py, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'Optimisation des Systèmes | |
| 09:50 - 10:20 | Coffee break (Main Hall) | |
| 10:20 - 11:20 | Plenary Session #2 (Salle de Conférences) - Přemysl Šůcha | |
| 11:25 - 12:25 | Best Student Paper Award #1 (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 11:25 - 11:55 | › Constraint and Integer Programming for Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Transfer Times | |
| 11:55 - 12:25 | › Learning to Schedule the Final Assembly Line: a GNN for Fast, Stable Scheduling under Uncertainty - Sergei Gladyshev, Kedge Business School | |
| 11:25 - 12:25 | Industrial Session A (Salle Europe) | |
| 12:25 - 13:45 | Lunch (Main Hall) | |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | Best Student Paper Award #2 (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | › Scheduling under multi-skill workforce constraints: A novel Logic-Based Benders Decomposition Approach - Johanna Mlekusch, University of Vienna | |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | › Solution approaches for the multi-interval resource investment problem - Laura Henke, Clausthal University of Technology | |
| 13:45 - 14:45 | Industrial Session B (Salle Europe) | |
| 14:50 - 15:50 | Best Student Paper Award #3 (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | › Maximizing the project's net present value with per-unit earliness and tardiness penalties - Lena Wohlert, Clausthal University of Technology | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | › Mathematical Programming for Workload-Balanced Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects | |
| 14:50 - 15:50 | I - scheduling under uncertainty (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | › Stability in Stochastic Project Scheduling: Comparing Variable and Fixed Resource Allocation - Maria Elena Bruni, Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | › On solution representations for two-stage single-machine robust scheduling - Louis RIVIERE, Modèles Discrets pour les Systèmes Complexes - Christian Artigues, Équipe Recherche Opérationnelle, Optimisation Combinatoire et Contraintes | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | › Multi-mode time-constrained project scheduling in environments subject to disturbances - Rim-Djazia GAOUAR, IMT Atlantique | |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee break (Main Hall) | |
| 16:20 - 17:20 | J - Constraint programming #3 (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | › Preemptive jobshop scheduling with maximum workload constraints - TANGUY TERRIEN, Équipe Recherche Opérationnelle, Optimisation Combinatoire et Contraintes, Etude de L'Interaction Personne SystèmE | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | › Periodic Scheduling of Grouped Time-Triggered Signals on a Single Resource - Josef Grus, DCE, FEE, Czech Technical University in Prague, IID, CIIRC, Czech Technical University in Prague | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | › A Constraint Satisfaction Formulation for the CTMC Representation of Stochastic Flow Shops - Marcello Urgo, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano | |
| 16:20 - 17:20 | K - Resource-constrained project scheduling (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | › Using a relax-and-fix approach to solve the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem with flexible resource profiles - Ann-Kathrin Mendl, University of Hildesheim | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | › Genetic algorithms for scheduling projects with multi-skilled resources and training decisions - Guillaume Vermeire, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | › Formulating the Two-Stage Agile Sprint Planning Problem: Optimization and Reinforcement Learning Models - CLAUDIO SZWARCFITER, Holon Institut of Technology | |
| 17:20 - 18:00 | BSPA Jury - Decisions | |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Gala Dinner |
Thursday, April 16, 2026
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 08:40 - 10:00 | L - Machine learning and Hybrid methods (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 08:40 - 09:00 | › Compact encoding for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem for variational quantum algorithms - Quentin Perrachon, Université de Bretagne Sud | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › Algorithm Selection for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem using Graph Neural Networks - Rainer Kolisch, Technical University of Munich | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | › Modelling a Satellite Task Schedulability Constraint with Neural Network Equations - Romain Barrault, DTIS, ONERA, Université de Toulouse [Toulouse] | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › Duration forecasting using project complexity and sensitivity in a Bayesian Network model - Izel Unsal Altuncan, Ghent University | |
| 08:40 - 10:00 | M - Scheduling and Applications (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 08:40 - 09:00 | › Solving a large oral examination timetabling problem using a multidimensional knapsack MILP formulation - Cyrille Briand, Équipe Recherche Opérationnelle, Optimisation Combinatoire et Contraintes | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | › Logic-Based Benders Decomposition for Multi-Factory and Multi-Level Scheduling - Malick Sow, Airbus Central Research and Technology | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | › Benchmarking Trapped-Ion and Quantum Annealing Quantum Hardware on Scheduling Problems - Konrad Wojciechowski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › Lessons learned from teaching project management to startup companies – Integrating product scope and project scope - Shtub Avraham, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology [Haifa] | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee break (Main Hall) | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Plenary Session #3 (Salle de Conférences) - Sigrid Knust | |
| 11:35 - 12:55 | N - Machine Scheduling #2 (Salle de Conférences) | (+) |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | › Scheduling of Splittable Tasks with Uniform Setup Time on Parallel Machines - Aurélien Mombelli, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'Optimisation des Systèmes | |
| 11:55 - 12:15 | › A Matheuristic Approach for Constrained Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling - Ceyda Oğuz, Koç University | |
| 12:15 - 12:35 | › An efficient insertion heuristic for shop scheduling problems - Karim TAMSSAOUET, BI Norwegian Business School [Oslo] | |
| 12:35 - 12:55 | › Exact method for Solving Integrated OptimizationProblems through a Bi-Level approach - Mallory Taffonneau, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours | |
| 11:35 - 12:55 | O - Heuristics and metaheuristics #2 (Salle Europe) | (+) |
| 11:35 - 11:55 | › A graph neural network based decomposition approach for the workload balancing problem - Alex Dagri, Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste | |
| 11:55 - 12:15 | › Integrated Scheduling, Maintenance, and Sampling Decisions for Risk Reduction in Semiconductor Manufacturing - Julien AUTUORI, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne - Claude Yugma, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne | |
| 12:15 - 12:35 | › Towards a description of correlations between heuristic parameters for a scheduling problem - Racha CHAHBOUB, Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours | |
| 12:35 - 12:55 | › Variable neighborhood descent for integrated packing and scheduling - Gustavo Rolim, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP) | |
| 12:55 - 14:15 | Lunch (Main Hall) | |
| 14:15 - 15:45 | IPC Meeting - PMS 2026 Conclusions - Future of PMS |
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