1. Session B Wrap-up Summary and Commentary Roman Barták Charles University (Czech Republic) roman.bartak@mff.cuni.cz http://ktiml.mff.cuni.cz/~bartak

2. SSC 2007, Roman Barták 2Summary Three papers proposing benchmark areas  Reactive scheduling  Over-subscribed scheduling  Real-life scheduling Wrap-up paper on benchmarks Two papers describing experience with other competitions  International Timetabling Competition  International Planning Competition

3. SSC 2007, Roman Barták 3 Other competitions We should learn from others. We are completely different. Why should one run a (scheduling) competition?  compare the systems or algorithms?  bridging the gap between theory and practice?  advance the research?  drive the research?  promote the research?  just to play? ……

4. SSC 2007, Roman Barták 4Benchmarks real-life motivated vs. academic problems going beyond classical scheduling  dynamic aspects  over-subscribed  different objectives (robustness,…) common representation  language for covering „all“ scheduling problems generating problem instances vs. real-life data  parameters to vary problem hardness or to vary problem type evaluation criteria  is runtime so bad? conclusions from the competition  any winner?