ROSTUDEL- documents


At ROSTUDEL , Operations Research software and consulting , we believe in a mutual benefit between the research community and the industry end users. Besides the open-souce frameworks, besides taking part in numerous seminars and workshops, we are convinced that sharing experience adds value to our current and future customers, prospects, partners, but also to students and researchers who would like at one time or another participate to our adventure.

You will find here a list of available documents to download : 

  • a white paper on constraint-based schedulingthat presents practical implementation of scheduling concepts, such as precedence constraints, scarce resources and cumulative functions. Code samples are shown using OPL6.
  • a white paper on timetabling - in french - that presents a generic approach to tackle timetabling problems with predefined jobs to cover, labor and organization rules
  • a white paper on supply chain in both english and french that presents a procurement model for retail that has been successfully implemented in a hard-discount forecast and decision making information system
  • ROSTUDEL presented some know-how about column generation , constraint programming and dynamic programming applied to HR scheduling within fifth ALIO/EURO conference on combinatorial optimization (26 to 28th october 2005, Paris France). Dowload
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  • A paper in french about cooperation between constraint programming and linear relaxation applied to disjunctive choice between different day patterns in HR scheduling (DRT LIA 2000, university of Avignon). Download 
  • (To come) Some commented snaphots about our joint cooperation with EURODECISION (July 2006) in order to optimize batch of deliveries of goods to a logistic company
  • (To come) A general paper on the architecture ROSTUDEL has built for a joint cooperation with EURODECISION and TELASIDE (November 2006) for components network assignment. We focus on the ORM Hibernate used to access persistent data in JAVA, but also some other open-source tools (Jakarta Digester, FreeMarker, Log4j)
  • "Séparation exacte d’inégalités GUB cover étendues pour des contraintes de sac à dos" proceedings of FRANCORO V / ROADEF 2007 - collaboration with E. Naudin