Scheduling Theory, Algorithms, and Systems /

• Main Author: Pinedo, Michael L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Edition: 4th ed. 2012.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; System theory.; Operations research.; Management science.; Probabilities.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Systems Theory, Control.

 This new edition of the well established  text   Scheduling - Theory,  Algorithms, and Systems  provides an up-to-date coverage of  important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as well as  significant  scheduling problems that occur in the real world.  It  again includes  supplementary...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Supplementary Electronic Material
• Introduction
• Deterministic Models: Preliminaries
• Single Machine Models (Deterministic)
• Advanced Single Machine Models (Deterministic)
• Parallel Machine Models (Deterministic)
• Flow Shops and Flexible Flow Shops (Deterministic)
• Job Shops (Deterministic
• Open Shops (Deterministic)
• Stochastic Models: Preliminaries
• Single Machine Models (Stochastic)
• Single Machine Models with Release Dates (Stochastic)
• Parallel Machine Models (Stochastic)
• Flow Shops, Job Shops and Open Shops (Stochastic)
• General Purpose Procedures for Deterministic Scheduling
• More Advanced General Purpose Procedures
• Modeling and Solving Scheduling Problems in Practice
• Design and Implementation of Scheduling Systems: Basic Concepts
• Design and Implementation of Scheduling Systems: More Advanced Concepts
• Examples of System Designs and Implementations
• What Lies Ahead?
• Appendices
• References.