Workshop Programme

Times are local (AEST) and speakers are higlighted in boldface.

Location: Room 107

Session 1: Monday 15 July, 8.30am - 10.20am

08.30am-08.35am Welcome and Opening (workshop organizers)

08.35am-09.20am Invited Keynote: Optimization Applications of D-Wave's Quantum Computing Technology (Catherine Potts)

09.20am-09.35am A Simple QUBO Formulation of Sudoku (Sascha Mücke)

09.35am-09.50am Solving the Turbine Balancing Problem using Quantum Annealing (Arnold Unterauer, David Bucher, Matthias Knoll, Constantin Economides, Michael Lachner, Thomas Germain, Moritz Kessel, Smajo Hajdinovic, Jonas Stein)

09.50am-10.05am A3TUM: Automated Tabu Tenure Tuning by Unique Move for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (Masahiko Sugimura, Matthieu Parizy)

10.05am-10.20am Benchmarks for Digital Annealer with Quadratic Constrained Binary Optimization Problems (Hiroaki Kameyama, Yutaka Takita, Matthieu Parizy)

Session 2: Monday 15 July, 10.40am - 12.30pm

10.40am-10.55am Modeling stochastic eye tracking data: A comparison of quantum generative adversarial networks and Markov models (Shailendra Bhandari, Pedro Lencastre, Pedro Lind)

10.55am-11.10am On Solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows using Quantum Annealing (Axel Vargas, Pradyumn Shukla, Richard Allmendinger, Andreas Jaeger)

11.10am-11.25am Enhanced QUBO Formulations for The Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (Yousra Farhani, Malak Saiem, Taha Arbaoui, Faicel Hnaien)

11.25am-11.40am Using an Evolutionary Algorithm to Create (MAX)-3SAT QUBOs (Sebastian Zielinski, Maximilian Zorn, Thomas Gabor, Sebastian Feld, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien)

11.40am-11.55am Harnessing Inferior Solutions For Superior Outcomes: Obtaining Robust Solutions From Quantum Algorithms (Pascal Halffmann, Michael Trebing, Steve Lenk)

11.55am-12.30pm Panel discussion (all attendees and workshop organizers)