Our Department's Academics Represented Our University at the ISCO 2026 International Conference
Academics from the Department of Software Engineering at Karabük University, Prof. Dr. Hakan Kutucu and Research Assistant Deniz Demirkan, participated in academic activities at the ISCO 2026 (International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization), held on May 6–8, 2026.
Prof. Dr. Hakan Kutucu and Research Assistant Deniz Demirkan at ISCO 2026
Kutucu and Demirkan presented a comprehensive paper on the use of large language models (LLMs) in production planning and optimization processes — a field that has gained significant momentum in recent years. Their presentation offered a systematic analysis of current academic studies examining LLM applications in the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) and its variants, evaluating these innovative approaches under three main categories.
The presentation covered the role of artificial intelligence in scheduling processes, end-to-end production architectures, multi-agent systems, and methods for integration with existing optimization algorithms.
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Participants were also informed about the success of integration approaches in reducing hallucination risks, scalability limitations in datasets, computational costs, and potential solutions for establishing real-time dynamic scheduling mechanisms in industrial production environments in the future.
Throughout the conference, our academics met with numerous national and international researchers and engaged in productive discussions on potential joint research projects, academic publication opportunities, and collaboration prospects in the field of AI-based optimization that could be carried out under Karabük University.
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We congratulate Prof. Dr. Hakan Kutucu and Research Assistant Deniz Demirkan for successfully representing our university on the international stage, and wish them continued success in their academic endeavors.