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5 papers
Scheduling with Time Dependent Utilities: Fairness and Efficiency
Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici, Ulrich Pferschy
A new class of multi agent single machine scheduling problems is introduced, where each job is associated with a self interested agent with a utility function decreasing in complet…
Flow Shop Scheduling with Inter-Stage Flexibility and Blocking Constraints
Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici, Ulrich Pferschy +2
We investigate a scheduling problem arising from a material handling and processing problem in a production line of an Austrian company building prefabricated house walls. The addr…
Optimally rescheduling jobs with a LIFO buffer
Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici, Ulrich Pferschy +2
This paper considers single-machine scheduling problems in which a given solution, i.e. an ordered set of jobs, has to be improved as much as possible by re-sequencing the jobs. Th…
On a Stackelberg Subset Sum Game
Ulrich Pferschy, Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici
This contribution deals with a two-level discrete decision problem, a so-called Stackelberg strategic game: A Subset Sum setting is addressed with a set of items with given int…
Price of Fairness for Allocating a Bounded Resource
Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici, Ulrich Pferschy
In this paper we study the problem of allocating a scarce resource among several players (or agents). A central decision maker wants to maximize the total utility of all agents. Ho…