Publications of András Kovács

Working papers

• Erdős, G.; Kemény, Zs.; Kovács, A; Váncza, J.: Planning of remote laser welding processes. 46th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems (CIRP CMS 2013), accepted paper, 2013.
• Kovács, A.: Task Sequencing for Remote Laser Welding in the Automotive Industry. 23th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2013), accepted paper, 2013.
• Egri, P.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.;Váncza, J.: An Inverse Economic Lot-sizing Approach to Eliciting Supplier Cost Parameters. International Journal of Production Economics, submitted paper, 2012. [pdf]

International journals

• Nonaka, Y.; Erdős, G.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.; Monostori, L.; Nakano, T.; Váncza, J.: Generating alternative process plans for complex parts. CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology, in print, 2013. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Egri, P.; Kis, T.;Váncza, J.: Inventory control in supply chains: alternative approaches to a two-stage lot-sizing problem. International Journal of Production Economics, 143(2):385-394, 2013. [pdf] [doi]
• Kis, T.; Kovács, A.: Exact solution approaches for bilevel lot-sizing. European Journal of Operational Research, 226(2):237-245, 2013. [pdf] [doi]
• Kis, T.; Kovács, A.: On bilevel machine scheduling problems. OR Spectrum, 34/1, pp. 43-68, 2012. [pdf] [doi]
• Kis, T.; Kovács, A.: A cutting plane approach for integrated planning and scheduling. Computers and Operations Research, 39, pp. 320-327, 2012. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.: Optimizing the Storage Assignment in a Warehouse Served by Milkrun Logistics. International Journal of Production Economics, 133/1, pp. 312-318, 2011. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Erdős, G.; Viharos, Zs.J.; Monostori, L.: A System for the Detailed Scheduling of Wind Farm Maintenance. CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology, 60/1, pp. 497-501, 2011. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Kis, T.: Constraint Programming Approach to a Bilevel Scheduling Problem. Constraints, 16/3, pp. 317-340, 2011. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Beck, J.C.: A Global Constraint for Total Weighted Completion Time for Unary Resources. Constraints, 16/1:100-123, 2011. [pdf] [doi]
• Monostori, L.; Erdős, G.; Kádár, B.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.; Pfeiffer, A.; Váncza, J.: Digital Enterprise Solution for Integrated Production Planning and Control. Computers in Industry, 61/2, pp. 112-126, 2010. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Brown, K.N.; Tarim, S.A.: An Efficient MIP Model for the Capacitated Lot-sizing and Scheduling Problem with Sequence-dependent Setups. International Journal of Production Economics 118, pp. 282-291, 2009. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Beck, J.C.: A Global Constraint for Total Weighted Completion Time for Cumulative Resources. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 21/5, pp. 691-697, 2008. [pdf] [doi]
• Monostori, L.; Váncza, J.; Márkus, A.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.; Erdős, G.; Kádár, B.; Viharos, Zs.J.: Real-time, Cooperative Enterprises: Management of Changes and Disturbances in Different Levels of Production. CIRP - Journal of Manufacturing Systems 35/4, pp. 351-359, 2006. [link]
• Kovács, A.; Márkus, A.; Váncza, J.: Structural Exploration of Constraint-based Scheduling Problems. CIRP - Journal of Manufacturing Systems 34/4, pp. 291-298, 2005. [link]
• Kovács, A.: A Novel Approach to Aggregate Scheduling in Project-Oriented Manufacturing. Projects & Profits, October 2004, pp. 73-80.
• Váncza, J.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.: Aggregation – The Key to Integrating Production Planning and Scheduling. CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology 53/1, pp. 377-380, 2004. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Kis, T.: Partitioning of Trees for Minimizing Height and Cardinality. Information Processing Letters 89/4, pp. 181-185, 2004. [pdf] [doi]
• Márkus, A.; Váncza, J.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.: Project Scheduling Approach to Production Planning. CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology 52/1, pp. 359-362, 2003. [pdf] [doi]
• Márkus, A.; Váncza, J.; Kovács, A.: Constraint-based Process Planning in Sheet Metal Bending. CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology 51/1, pp. 425-428, 2002. [pdf] [doi]

International conferences and workshops

• Egri, P.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.;Váncza, J.: An Inverse Economic Lot-sizing Approach to Eliciting Supplier Cost Parameters. In: Preprints of the 17th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, Innsbruck, Vol. 2, pp. 197-207, 2012. [pdf]
• Kovács, A.; Erdős, G.; Monostori, L.; Viharos, Zs.J.: Scheduling the maintenance of wind farms for minimizing production loss. In: Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, pp. 14802-14807, 2011. [pdf]
• Kovács, A.; Csempesz, J.; Erdős, G.; Karnok, D.; Kemény, L.; Monostori, L.; Viharos, Zs.J.: WindMT: An integrated system for failure detection and maintenance scheduling at wind farms. In: ICAPS 2011, the 21th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Proceedings of System Demonstrations, Freiburg, pp. 46-49, 2011. [pdf]
• Kovács, A.; Egri, P.; Kis, T.;Váncza, J.: Approaches to inventory management in supply chains: a comparative study. In: Book of Abstracts, 16th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, pp. 107, 2010. [pdf-long] [pdf-short]
• Viharos, Zs.J.; Erdős, G.; Kovács, A.; Monostori, L.: Artificial Intelligence Applications for Maintenance Oriented Health Monitoring of Wind Turbines. Gépészet'2010, 7th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, pp. 403-413. 2010.
• Kovács, A.; Váncza, J.: Exploiting Repetitive Patterns in Practical Scheduling Problems. 43rd CIRP International Conference on Manufacturing Systems, pp. 868-875, 2010. [pdf]
• Viharos, Zs.J.; Monostori, L.; Erdős, G.; Kovács, A.: AI Supported Maintenance and Reliability System in Wind Energy Production. In: Proceedings of the European Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2010 (EWEC 2010), Warsaw, Poland, Vol. 5, pp. 4010-4022, 2010.
• Kovács, A.; Kis, T.: Constraint Programming Approach to a Bilevel Scheduling Problem. Coplas`09, ICAPS 2009 Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems, 2009. [pdf]
• Monostori, L.; Viharos, Zs.J.; Erdős, G.; Kovács, A.: AI Supported Maintenance and Reliability System in Wind Energy Production. AI-METH'2009, Symposium on Methods of Artificial Intelligence, Gliwice, Poland, paper nr. 20, 2009.
• Kis, T.; Kovács, A.: On Bilevel Machine Scheduling Problems. In Proc. of MAPSP’09, Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems, pp. 116-118, 2009. [pdf]
• Kovács, A.: Optimizing the Storage Assignment in a Warehouse Served by Milkrun Logistics. In: Book of Abstracts, 15th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, pp. 112, 2008. [pdf-long] [pdf-short]
• Kovács, A.; Beck, J.C.: Single-machine Scheduling with Tool Changes: A Constraint-based Approach. In: PlanSIG 2007, Proceedings of the 26th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, Prague, pp. 71-78, 2007. [pdf]
• Kovács, A.; Beck, J.C.: Constraint-based scheduling with total completion time criterion: models and applications. In: Preprints of MIM'07, IFAC Workshop on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, Budapest, pp. 139-144, 2007. [pdf]
• Kovács, A.; Beck, J.C.: Extensions of the COMPLETION Constraint. Coplas`07, CP/ICAPS 2007 Joint Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems, Providence, 2007. [pdf]
• Kovács, A.; Beck, J.C.: A Global Constraint for Total Weighted Completion Time. In: Proc. of CPAIOR 2007, the 4th Int. Conf. on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (Springer LNCS 4510), Brussels, pp. 112-126, 2007. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Brown, K.N.; Tarim, S.A.: An Efficient MIP Formulation for the Capacitated Lot-sizing and Scheduling Problem with Sequence-dependent Setups. In: Book of Abstracts, 14th International Symposium on Inventories, Budapest, pp. 77, 2006.
• Kovács, A.; Váncza, J.: Progressive Solutions: A Simple but Efficient Dominance Rule for Practical RCPSP. In: Proc. of CPAIOR 2006, the 3rd Int. Conf. on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (Springer LNCS 3990), Cork, pp. 139-151, 2006. [pdf] [doi]
• Kis, T.; Drótos, M.; Erdős, G.; Kovács, A.: The Interval Flow Shop Model. PMS 2006, 10th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling, Poznan, 2006.
• Kovács, A.; Egri, P.; Kis, T.;Váncza, J.: Proterv II: An Integrated Production Planning and Scheduling System. In: Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (Springer LNCS 3709), Sitges, p. 880, 2005. [pdf] [doi]
• Monostori, L.; Váncza, J.; Márkus, A.; Kis, T.; Kovács, A.; Erdős, G.; Kádár, B.; Viharos, Zs.J.: Real-time, Cooperative Enterprises: Management of Changes and Disturbances in Different Levels of Production. 38th CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, Florianopolis, 2005.
• Kovács, A.; Váncza, J.: Completable Partial Solutions in Constraint Programming and Constraint-based Scheduling. In: Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (Springer LNCS 3258), Toronto, pp. 332-346, 2004. [pdf] [doi]
• Kovács, A.; Váncza, J.: Completable Partial Solutions in Constraint Programming and Constraint-based Scheduling. In: Proceedings of the CSCLP04 – Joint Annual Workshop of ERCIM / CoLogNet on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, Lausanne, pp. 244-257, 2004.
• Kovács, A.; Márkus, A.; Váncza, J.: Structural Exploration of Constraint-based Scheduling Problems. In: Proceedings of the 37th CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, Budapest, pp. 433-439, 2004.
• Kovács, A.: A Novel Approach to Aggregate Scheduling in Project-Oriented Manufacturing. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Doctoral Consortium, Trento, pp. 63-67, 2003.
• Kovács, A.; Váncza, J.; Monostori, L.; Kádár, B.; Pfeiffer, A.: Real-life Scheduling Using Constraint Programming and Simulation. In: Intelligent Manufacturing Systems 2003 – Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Budapest, pp. 213-218, Elsevier, 2003.
• Kovács, A.; Váncza, J.: Constraint Feedback in Solving Incomplete Models: A Case Study in Sheet Metal Bending. In: STAIRS 2002 – Starting Artificial Researchers Symposium, Lyon, pp. 109-118, (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Vol. 78, IOS) 2002.
• Deák, F.; Kovács, A.; Váncza, J.; Dobrowiecki, T.: Hierarchical Knowledge-based Process Planning in Manufacturing. In: Digital Enterprise Challenges – Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Programming Languages for Manufacturing, Budapest, pp. 428-439, (IFIP Conference Series Vol. 77, Kluwer) 2001. [pdf]

Misc

• Kovács, A.; Erdős, G.; Viharos, Zs.J.; Monostori, L.: Failure detection and maintenance scheduling for wind farms (Szélparkok hibadetektálása és karbantartás ütemezése). In: Book of Abstracts of the Conference on Applied Mathematics, Győr, pp. 13, 2012.
• Kovács, A.; Egri, P.; Váncza, J.: Integrált termeléstervezés és ütemezés megrendelésre történő gyártásban (Integrated production planning and scheduling in make-to-order manufacturing. In Hungarian). Gépgyártás 45/1, pp. 45-47, 2005. [pdf]
• Egri, P.; Kovács, A.; Márkus, A.; Váncza, J.: Project-Oriented Approach to Production Planning and Scheduling in Make-to-Order Manufacturing. Production Systems and Information Engineering 2, pp.23-36, 2005. [pdf]

Theses

• Kovács, A.: Novel Models and Algorithms for Integrated Production Planning and Scheduling. PhD Thesis, Budapest University of Technology and Economy, 2005. [pdf] [pdf - booklet - eng] [pdf - booklet - hun]