Dipl.-Ing. Werner Schafhauser Research Assistant / PhD Student Room: HD 03 23 Phone: +43-1-58801-18449

I received a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2006.
Currently, I'm pursuing my PhD at the DBAI group within the project Planning Knowledge of Softnet Austria.


Research Interests

• Constraint Satisfaction Problems
• Structural Decompositions Methods
• Metaheuristic Optimisation
• Scheduling Problems

Benchmark Problems

• Shift Design and Break Scheduling Problems

Publications

• Andreas Beer, Johannes Gärtner, Nysret Musliu, Werner Schafhauser, Wolfgang Slany.
  A Break Scheudling System Using AI Techniques.
  Accepted for publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems.
  
  
  
• Andreas Beer, Johannes Gärtner, Nysret Musliu, Werner Schafhauser, Wolfgang Slany.
  Scheduling Breaks in Shift Plans for Call Centers.
  In Proceedings of PATAT 2008 The 7th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Montréal, August 18 - 22, 2008.
  (PDF-file).
  
  
• Andreas Beer, Johannes Gärtner, Nysret Musliu, Werner Schafhauser, Wolfgang Slany.
  An Iterated Local Search Algorithm for a Real-Life Break Scheduling Problem
  Abstract Presentation: Matheuristics2008 - Second International Workshop on Model Based Metaheuristics, Bertinoro; Junee 16 -18, 2008.
  ( abstract )
  
  
• Nysret Musliu and Werner Schafhauser.
  Genetic Algorithms for Generalised Hypertree Decompositions.
  European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 317-340, 2007.
  
  
• Werner Schafhauser.
  New Heuristic Methods for Tree Decompositions and Generalized Hypertree Decompositions.
  Master Thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 2006.
  (PDF-file).