09:00 – 09:40 Refreshments
09:40 – 10:00 Welcome and opening remarks
Ehud Menipaz, Conference Chairman
Sigal Berman, Department Head of IEM@BGU
Nimrod Talmon, Chairman of the Scientific Committee
10:00 – 11:00 Session A – Chair: Shlomi Laufer
Uriel Israeli – Job Scheduling by Choosing and Tiling Existing Scheduling Segments
Alon Sela – Media Usage in Disasters and Regular Days: Resilience, Quality of Life and the Role of Emotions in Israeli and Chinese Studies Ruth Sagron – A simple heuristic for solving the buffer allocation problem in imbalanced production lines with machine breakdowns
11:00 – 12:00 Session B – Chair: Shuki Dror
Gal Mendelson – Worst case analysis of non- stationary Multi-Armed-Bandits
Ilai Bistritz – It's Just a Game: Designing Distributed Multiagent Protocols
Moran Koren – Counterbalancing Learning and Strategic Incentives in Allocation Markets
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Panel
Leveraging Technology and Engineering to Address an Ongoing National Crisis (Regional war, COVID-19, Climate Change)
Chair: Ehud Menipaz, Ben Gurion University, Shenkar, Ira Foundation
Participants: General (Ret.) Ilan Biran, former Chairman, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Prof. Emeritus Gadi Rabinowitz, Ben Gurion University, Dr. Amir Ziv Av, Ziv Av Technologies
14:00 – 14:40 Session C -- Chair: Eran Hanany
Eyal Berliner – Addressing Directional Changes in the Single Capacity Chasing Repairman Problem (1-CCRP)
Noa Zychlinski – The Hybrid Hospital: Balancing On Site and Remote Hospitalization
14:40 – 15:10 Coffee break
15:10 – 15:50 Session D -- Chair: Yonit Barron
Roie Zivan – Service Oriented Multi-Agent Optimization Problems
Reut Noham – The Humanitarian Transshipment Problem
15:50 – 16:00 Closing remarks