Optimization applications in scheduling theory

• Book ID: 104629855
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 257 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0925-5001
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00121672

✦ Synopsis

This Special Issue is devoted to scheduling theory. More specifically it addresses various issues and provides successful examples on the use of various aspects of optimization theory, deterministic or stochastic, for the development of scheduling results for a variety of application environments.

Scheduling is the field of study concerned with the optimal allocation or assignment of resources, over time, to a set of tasks or activities. It is a decision making process that has as goal the optimization of one or more objectives. Scheduling decisions lead to purely combinatorial questions regarding how a list of tasks are to be arranged or sequenced.