Planning and Scheduling: Theory and Applications

(3 Credits)

This course aims at covering optimization topics in deterministic as well as in stochastic planning and scheduling. The objective is to expose the students to optimization techniques as well as techniques that are commonly used for proving properties of interest in deterministic as well as stochastic models, which may turn out to be useful in the models their are analyzing in their own research. The course also focuses on the relationships between stochastic models and their deterministic counterparts.