Program of the special session

• How human planners can improve the performance of hierarchical planning systems (Moscoso, Fransoo, Fischer)
• A cognitive typology to design planning algorithms (van Wezel)
• Complacency failure in human-machine cooperation in scheduling (Cegarra, Hoc)
• Schedulers’ Work Content – A Quantified Analysis (Berglund, Karltun)
• Work Analysis for the Cognitive and Social Settings of Scheduling and Control (Wilson)
• An Exploratory Investigation of Dynamic Scheduling Processes for Surgical Operations (Williams)
• Modelling Dynamics in Decision Support Systems (R. Riedel, Wiers, Fransoo)
• Modelling decision-making activities in planning production coordinated across a supply chain (Higgins)
• Success factors of collaborative planning in supply networks (Günter, Grote)
• Performance measurement in supply networks (Shepherd, Günter)

Program of the special session:

• Introduction to the special session. By Martina Berglund, Peter Williams, Vincent Wiers.
• A Foundation for Analysis of Human Cooperation in Multi-Party Scheduling. By Kaveh Nezamirad, Peter G Higgins and Simon Dunstall.
• Sociotechnical design of shopfloor planning and control. By Toni Wäfler.
• Design of integrated management systems for the extended shop-floor. By Philip G. Moscoso.
• A cultural framework for production management. By Ralph Riedel.
• Prochart toolkit to re-design production planning, scheduling and control processes. By J.E. Guinery, B.L. MacCarthy.
• The Contribution of Human Planners. By Jan Fransoo and Vincent Wiers.
• On assessing the PSC process from an MTO-perspective. By Martina Berglund and Johan Karltun.
• Algorithmic support for human rail shunting planners. By W.M.C. van Wezel , J. Riezebos.
• The HOPS/COST research programme. Toni Wäfler.

Workshop organized by the Faculty of Management & Organization, University of Groningen, Groningen The Netherlands, June 13th — 15th 2005

The overall objective of the workshop is to enhance and deepen the understanding of human factors in planning, scheduling and control. The workshop brings together the leading researchers in a wide range of disciplines, for example, engineering, cognitive and social psychology, sociology, IT, and operations management. The workshop is closely connected to the EU-funded COST Action “Human and Organisational Factors in Industrial Planning and Scheduling” (Hops). HOPS is expected to bring major advances to the field of human factors in planning, scheduling and control in Europe in the coming years. This makes active ongoing cooperation with researchers outside of Europe imperative, and it gives the workshop an important mediating role in a global context.

The workshop will include invited presentations and presentations of submitted papers. Young researchers and PhD students are strongly encouraged to participate. A great deal of time will be given to discussions between the participants.

Topics include (but are not limited to) discussions on theory development of human aspects of planning and scheduling, research methodology, the gap between theory and practice, and collaboration of planners in the supply chain.

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