题目：Appointment Scheduling with Limited Distributional Information

报告人：Jiawei Zhang（New York University）

时间：2012年6月28日上午9：00-10：00

地点：成人直播二号楼217会议室

摘要：

We consider the appointment scheduling problem by assuming only limited distributional information of the service durations such as mean and variance, or mean and support. For a given sequence of appointments, the goal of the appointment scheduling problem is to determine the planned starting times and to minimize the worst expected waiting and overtime costs among all distributions with the given distributional information. We show that the mean-variance scheduling model can be formulated as a second-order conic program. This formulation has interesting implications to the optimality of the smallest-variance-first sequencing rule. We obtain similar results for the mean-support model.

报告人简介：

Jiawei Zhang is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He received a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and an M.S. degree in Operations Research from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University. His research interests include mathematical programming and its applications in operations management. He was a recipient of the INFORMS Optimization Prize for Young Researchers in 2004. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Operations Research and Mathematics of Operations Research.