Handbook on Scheduling : From Theory to Applications

Jacek Blazewicz

ISBN 10: 3642429637 / ISBN 13: 9783642429637

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014

About this Item

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This handbook is in a sense a continuation of Scheduling Computer and Manu facturing Processes [1], two editions of which have received kind acceptance of a wide readership. As the previous volume, it is the result of a long lasting Ger man-Polish collaboration. However, due to important reasons, it has a new form. Namely, following the suggestions of the Publisher, we decided to prepare a handbook filling out a gap on the market in the area. The gap concerns a unified approach to the most important scheduling models and methods with the special emphasis put on their relevance to practical situations. Thus, in comparison with [1], the contents has been changed significantly. This concerns not only correc tions we have introduced, following the suggestions made by many readers (we are very grateful to all of them) and taking into account our own experience, but first of all this means that important new material has been added. It is character ized in Chapter 1, and, generally speaking, covers a transition from theory to ap plications in a wide spectrum of scheduling problems, hidependently of this, in all chapters new results have been reported and new illustrative material, includ ing real-world problems, has been given. We very much hope that in this way the handbook will be of interest to a much wider readership than the former volume, the fact which has been under lined in the title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Handbook on Scheduling : From Theory to Applications
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642429637
• ISBN 13: 9783642429637
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This book provides a theoretical and application-oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems arising in advanced planning and computer systems. The text examines specific scheduling problems across a range of parameters: job priority, release times, due dates, processing times, precedence constraints, resource usage and more, focusing on such topics as computer systems and supply chain management. Analysis and solutions are presented through polynomial and exponential time optimization algorithms as well as approximation and heuristic approaches. The book explores a variety of problems including single and parallel processors, flexible shops and manufacturing systems, and resource-constrained project scheduling.

Many applications from industry and service operations management and case studies are described. The handbook is an indispensable source for a broad audience, ranging from researchers to practitioners, graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

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This handbook covers not only in a unified approach the most important scheduling models and methods, it also put special emphasis to their relevance to practical situations. Many applications from industry and service operations management and case studies are described. Because the book offers some preliminaries concerning basic notions from discrete mathematics, it can also be used by beginners. As a consequence, the handbook is an indispensable source for a broad audience, ranging from researchers to practitioners, graduate and advanced undergraduate students in computer science/engineering, operations research, industrial and real-time engineering, management science, business administration, information systems, and applied mathematics curricula.