Publications

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Ongoing research

Contract design in project management.
Project planning with financial objectives.
Cash flow management in project planning.

Publications in international journals

Agnetis, Alessandro, Ben Hermans, Roel Leus, and Salim Rostami (2022). “Time-critical testing and search problems”. European Journal of Operational Research 296(2), pp. 440–452. issn: 0377-2217. (PDF)(DOI)
Garaix, Thierry, Salim Rostami, and Xiaolan Xie (2020). "Daily outpatient chemotherapy appointment scheduling with random deferrals". Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 32:129-153. (PDF)(DOI)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, Wenchao Wei, and Roel Leus (2019). "Sequential testing of n-out-of-n systems: Precedence theorems and exact methods". European Journal of Operational Research 274(3):876-885. (PDF)(DOI)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2019). "Precedence theorems and dynamic programming for the single-machine weighted tardiness problem". European Journal of Operational Research 272(1):43-49. (PDF)(DOI)(EXE & Instances)(Results)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2018). "New strategies for stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling". Journal of Scheduling 21(3):349-365. (PDF)(DOI)(Online)(EXE & Instances)(Results)
Ranjbar, Mohammad, Majid Salari, Nasibeh Movahedfar, and Salim Rostami (2013). "Memetic and scatter search meta-heuristics for a multi-objective fortnightly university course timetabling problem: a case study". Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering 6(4):249-271. (PDF)

Theses

Rostami, Salim (2019). "New Models and Methods for Sequencing and Project Scheduling". Supervisors: Roel Leus, Stefan Creemers. Doctoral Dissertation. KU Leuven. (PDF)
Rostami, Salim (2013). "Stochastic resource constrained project scheduling problem". Supervised by Roel Leus. M.Sc. Thesis. KU Leuven. (PDF)

Research reports

Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, Wenchao Wei, and Roel Leus (2018). Sequential testing of n-out-of-n systems: Precedence theorems and exact approaches. Tech. rep. KBI_1806. KU Leuven. (PDF)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2017). Precedence theorems and dynamic programming for the single-machine weighted tardiness problem. Tech. rep. KBI_1715. KU Leuven. (PDF)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2016). New benchmark results for the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem. Tech. rep. KBI_1602. KU Leuven. (PDF)

International conferences

Agnetis, Alessandro, Ben Hermans, Roel Leus, and Salim Rostami (2021). “Time-critical testing and search problems”. In: European Conference on Operations Research (EURO).
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2019). "Maximizing the net present value of a project under uncertainty: The value of activity delays". In: The 14th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP). (Slides)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2018). "Sequential testing of n-out-of-n systems: A comparison of exact approaches". In: The annual international conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). (Slides)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2018). "Precedence theorems and dynamic programming solutions for the precedence-constrained single machine weighted tardiness problem". In: European Conference on Operations Research (EURO). (Slides)
Leus, Roel, Salim Rostami, and Stefan Creemers (2017). "Optimal solutions for minimum-cost sequential system testing". In: Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA). (Slides)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2017). "Precedence theorems and dynamic programming solutions for the precedence-constrained single machine weighted tardiness problem". In: The annual international conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). (Slides)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2017). "Sequential testing of n-out-of-n systems: A comparison of exact approaches". In: 31st annual conference of the Belgian operational research society (ORBEL). (Slides)
Rostami, Salim, Stefan Creemers, and Roel Leus (2016). "A new policy class for the stochastic RCPSP". In: 15th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling (PMS). (Paper-Slides)
- This paper won the 2nd best paper award. (PDF)
Garaix, Thierry, Salim Rostami, and Xiaolan Xie (2016). "Daily outpatient chemotherapy appointment scheduling with random deferrals". In: Le 17eme congrès annuel de la société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF). (Paper)
Leus, Roel, Salim Rostami, and Stefan Creemers (2015). "New benchmark results for the stochastic resource-constrained project scheduling problem". In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM). (Paper-Slides)
Rostami, Salim, Thierry Garaix, and Xiaolan Xie (2015). "Outpatient appointment scheduling for chemotherapy sessions". In: International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM). (Paper)
Rostami, Salim, Thierry Garaix, and Xiaolan Xie (2014). "Appointment scheduling for ambulatory chemotherapy". In: 40th annual meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services (ORAHS). (Slides)
Rostami, Salim and Mohammad Ranjbar (2012). "Fortnightly university course scheduling problem: A case study". In: 5th International Conference of Iranian Operations Research Society.