Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Sedding

Work at ZHAW

Position

Senior Lecturer in Smart Services and Operations

Focus

Combinatorial optimization algorithms, in particular in scheduling

Network

Membership of networks

Swiss Operations Research Society

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7359-6587

Awards

• IISE Transactions Award 2021 / best journal paper award in production and logistics
  The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
  04 / 2022
• IWA Prize 2016 / for a paper in the Journal of Scheduling
  Initiative of Science and Automotive Industry (IWA) and Volkswagen
  04 / 2016
• Best Product 2013 / as Senior Developer for ipoLog
  LogiMAT / International Trade Show for Intralogistics Solutions and Process Management
  03 / 2013

Recommendations

• Conference "AI-driven Decision Intelligence: Shaping Operations for Efficiency and Sustainability", June 26, 2024
• 4. International Workshop on Dynamic Scheduling Problems (IWDSP), June 5–6, 2023, Winterthur

Projects

• Customizable Injection Molded Products and Services with Interconnected Production Planning / Project leader / ongoing
• Warehouse Operations / Project leader / completed
• Calculation of an optimized freight configuration for aircraft / Project leader / completed
• The Fourth International Workshop on Dynamic Scheduling Problems / Project leader / completed
• Systematization of production processes for automatized scheduling in industrial SMEs / Project leader / completed
• Self-Regulated Corrective Actions on GFRP Production Process / Team member / completed
• Adaptive Production Planning Systems for Fast Decision Support / Deputy project leader / completed

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Scheduling non-monotonous convex piecewise-linear time-dependent processing times, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Dynamic Scheduling Problems, 79–84, 2018.
• On the complexity of scheduling start time dependent asymmetric convex processing times, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling, 209–212, 2018.
• Scheduling of Time-Dependent Asymmetric Nonmonotonic Processing Times permits an FPTAS, Proceedings of the 15th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization, 135–138, 2017.
• Box Placement as Time Dependent Scheduling To Reduce Automotive Assembly Line Worker Walk Times, Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems, 92–94, 2017.
• Single Machine Scheduling with Nonmonotonic Piecewise Linear Time Dependent Processing Times, with F. Jaehn, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling 2014, 222–225, 2014.
• Massively Parallel Multiclass Object Recognition, with Deger, F., Dammertz, H., Bouecke, J., Lensch, H., Proceedings of the 15th Vision, Modeling and Visualization Workshop, 251–257, 2010.

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