Conference Program

Important Dates & Program Information

Sunday, 14 June 2026

14:00 - 15:00 Welcome Registration

Start of the conference in Mannheim. On-site luggage storage will be available. Luggage can also be dropped off earlier on the arrival day.

15:00 - 15:30 Opening & Welcome Remarks
15:30 - 16:30 Keynote Speech

Professor Young Jae Jang, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST

Manufacturing Physical AI: Architecting Autonomous Factories through VLMs, Sim-to-Real Learning, and Open Testbeds

Monday, 15 June 2026

09:00 - 10:00 Technical Session I - Chair: Stolletz

Arash Gandomkar Ghalhar, Fikri Karaesmen: Optimal Dynamic Scheduling Policy for a Two Product Make-To-Stock Production System with Exogenous Returns

Tobias Bosse, Ellen Hahne, Stan Gershwin, Kai Furmans: Optimal Dispatching in Reentrant Systems

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Technical Session II - Chair: Matta

Chuan Shi, Stanley B. Gershwin: An Optimization Method for Production Line Profit Maximization under Probabilistic Waiting Time Constraints

Pan Xiong, Xi’an, Shaanxi, George Liberopoulos: Joint Optimization of Processing Rates and CONWIP Level in Serial Production Lines with Quadratic Rate-Dependent Energy Consumption — Liberopoulos George

Ahmad Akhavan, Fikri Karaesmen: Multi-Period Production Planning with Random Yields: The Value of Yield Prediction

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 Industrial Talk

Answering Market Dynamics with Resilient and Flexible Supply Chains - Dr. Georg Laipple - Robert Bosch GmbH

14:00 - 15:00 Coffee Break

Tuesday, 16 June 2026

09:00 - 10:00 Technical Session II - Chair: Liberopoulos

Matteo Carabelli, Tullio Tolio, Maria Chiara Magnanini: An approximate analytical model for performance evaluation of two-stage production systems with queue-time constraints and state-dependent hedging point policies

Omer Schmiel, Benjamin Legros, Raik Stolletz: Why should we care about the retrial time distribution?

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30 Technical Session IV - Chair: Karaesmen

Sebastian Koehler, Matthias Klumpp: Enhancing In-store Order Fulfillment: A Semi-Open Queuing Network approach

Uta Mohring, Melvin Drent, Ivo Adan, Willem van Jaarsveld: Same-day or next-day? Transparent time-dependent shipment pricing for e-fulfillment

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Wednesday, 17 June 2026

09:00 - 10:00 Technical Session V - Chair: Helber

Duru Balpınarlı, Anıl Doğru, Oktay Karabağ, Siamak Khayyati, Barış Tan: Energy-efficient production control of an inventory/production system with Deep Q-Networks

Ahmad Rezaee Elyatoo, Abdourahim Sylla, Maria DI MASCOLO: CO2 emission reduction of serial production lines through energy saving using reinforcement learning

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Technical Session VI - Chair: Mohring

Christophe Senger, Timo Lehmann, Laura Altmann, Alexander Ernst, Kai Furmans: Throughput Modeling for Robotic Compact Storage Systems via Hybrid Queueing Analytics and Machine Learning

Yavar Yeganeh, Mahsa Shekari, Nicla Frigerio, Andrea Matta: Discussion on Scalable Reinforcement Learning Framework for Control Agents in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Andreas Kloos, Justus Arne Schwarz: A Structure-Informed Convolutional Neural Network Surrogate Approach for Integrated Performance Evaluation & Optimization of Flow Lines via Mixed-Integer Programming

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

Thursday, 18 June 2026

09:00 - 10:00 Technical Session VII - Chair: Schwarz

Benedikt Schulz: Modeling and Performance Analysis of Tour-Based Multi-Load Automated Guided Vehicle Operations

Changhyun Chung, Young Jae Jang: Executable Multi-Agent Path Finding Considering Practical Hardware Constraints

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Technical Session VIII - Chair: DI MASCOLO

Justus Arne Schwarz, Philipp Pelz: Stochastic Optimization of Patient-to-Room Assignments in Hospital Wards

Stefan Helber: Elements of a branch-price-and-cut algorithm to solve a task scheduling and assignment problem

Amir Azaron, Kai Furmans: Designing Efficient Supply Chain Networks under Supply Disruption and Demand Uncertainty

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 SMMSO Community Meeting
14:00 - 15:00 Coffee Break

Friday, 19 June 2026

10:00 - 11:30 IFL Guided Tour and Conference Closure