Delay-Robust Event Scheduling

Robust optimisation is a well-established concept to deal with uncertainty. In particular, recovery-robust models are suitable for real-world contexts, where a certain amount of recovery—although limited—is often available. In this paper we describe a general framework to optimise event-based problems against delay propagation. We also present a real-world application to train platforming in the Italian railways in order to show the practical effectiveness of our framework.