Scheduling computer and manufacturing processes

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Jacek Błażewicz, Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Ecker, Prof. Dr. Erwin Pesch, Prof. Dr. Günter Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Jan Węglarz (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 489
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Let us first describe the purpose of this book, starting with the explanation of its title. In general, scheduling problems can be understood very broadly as the problems of allocating resources over time to perform a set of tasks being parts of some processes, among which computational and manufacturing ones are most important. Tasks individually compete for resources which can be of a very different nature, e.g. manpower, money, processors (machines), energy, tools. The same is true for task characteristics, e.g. ready times, due dates, relative ur­ gency weights, functions describing task processing in relation to allotted re­ sources. Moreover, a structure of a set of tasks, reflecting precedence constraints among them, can be defined in different ways. In addition, different criteria which measure the quality of the performance of a set of tasks can be taken into account. It is easy to imagine that scheduling problems understood so generally ap­ pear almost everywhere in real-world situations. Of course, there are many as­ pects concerning approaches for modeling and solving these problems which are of general methodological importance. On the other hand, however, some classes of scheduling problems have their own specificity which should be taken into ac­ count. Since it is rather impossible to treat all these classes with the same atten­ tion in a framework of one book, some constraints must be put on the subject area considered. In the case of this book these constraints are as follows.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Basics....Pages 9-56
Definition, Analysis and Classification of Scheduling Problems....Pages 57-72
Scheduling on One Processor....Pages 73-135
Scheduling on Parallel Processors....Pages 137-203
Communication Delays and Multiprocessor Tasks....Pages 205-246
Scheduling in Flow and Open Shops....Pages 247-272
Scheduling in Job Shops....Pages 273-315
Scheduling under Resource Constraints....Pages 317-365
Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems....Pages 367-419
Computer Integrated Production Scheduling....Pages 421-468
Back Matter....Pages 469-485

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Computer Communication Networks; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization