On November 23rd I successfully defended my licentiate thesis, where Christian Schulte acted as opponent. Besides giving tons of valuable feedback on my approach, he summarized my thesis with the following bullets:
- Convincingly demontrates that short-term underground mine scheduling
- can be understood as a flow-shop problem
- can be elegantly modelled using constraint programming
- can be solved efficiently using CP non-naively
- that the obtained solution has potential of adoption in underground mining
- Expertly written regarding
- scholarship – discusses approaches to mining as well as to flow-shop problems
- rigor – succent mathematical presentation based on publications covering methodology and application domain
- flow – a coherent monograph that is a pleasure to read
- scope – ranging to an unusual reflection of potential adoption
Besides thanking Christian for acting as opponent, I would also like to thank Mikael Johansson, Jenny Greberg, Kateryna Mishchenko, and Alessandro Zanarini for all your valuable advice.
Max Åstrand 