Scheduling the 41st-ORSA-Meeting Sessions: The Visiting-Fireman Problem, II

Larry R. Arnold, Richard E. Beckwith and Carl M. Jones
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Larry R. Arnold: Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Richard E. Beckwith: Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Carl M. Jones: US Army Concept Analysis Agency, Bethesda, Maryland

Operations Research, 1973, vol. 21, issue 5, 1095-1103

Abstract: The invited-paper program of the New Orleans ORSA meeting was organized so as to minimize the conflict among coscheduled sessions. A survey of a random sample of ORSA members was conducted; the respondents ranking their top session choices from a preliminary program. The results were processed into a weighted session-conflict matrix, with an optional override to reflect session chairmen's scheduling restrictions and multiple-presentation author constraints. The minimum-conflict schedule was produced heuristically by a combination of random schedule generation and discrete optimization.

Date: 1973
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