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

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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)

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.

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  • Larry R. Arnold & Richard E. Beckwith & Carl M. Jones, 1973. "Scheduling the 41st-ORSA-Meeting Sessions: The Visiting-Fireman Problem, II," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 21(5), pages 1095-1103, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:21:y:1973:i:5:p:1095-1103
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.21.5.1095
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