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 |
| Afterwards |
Transfer from Mannheim to Edesheim
An organized transfer from Mannheim to Edesheim will be provided. |
| Evening |
Dinner
Dinner at Schloss Edesheim |
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 |
| Evening |
Dinner
Dinner at Schloss Edesheim |
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 |
| Afternoon |
Social Event
Guided city tour in Landau with dinner in Landau |
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 |
| 14:00 - 17:00 |
Social Event
Visit Mercedes Daimler Trucks |
| Evening |
Dinner
Dinner at Schloss Edesheim |
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 |
| Afternoon |
Social Event
Free time |
| Evening |
Conference Dinner
In Schloss Edesheim |
Friday, 19 June 2026
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Transfer to Karlsruhe |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | IFL Guided Tour and Conference Closure |