The following new handbook on scheduling is now available:
"Handbook on Scheduling. From Theory to Applications" by
J.Blazewicz, K.Ecker, E.Pesch, G.Schmidt, J.Weglarz,
Springer, Berlin, New York, 2007, 647 pp. (ISBN 978-3-540-28046-0)
This book focuses on the problems motivated by applications from
industry and service operations management as well as from case
studies of real-life problems. Among others there is a detailed
description of
optimization procedures for acrylic-glass production and the production of
helicopter parts in a flexible manufacturing system. Also the backbone of
an efficient decision support system for airport gate scheduling as well
as a flexible flow shop scheduling system in order to manufacture screws
and car power brakes are described.
The presented material realizes a reasonable compromise between the needs
of readers coming from different areas, starting from those who are
beginners in the field of scheduling and related topics, and ending with
specialists in the area. Thus some preliminaries concerning basic notions
from discrete mathematics (problems, algorithms and methods), and besides
the most recent, the most important classical results are presented. In
consequence, the handbook can be addressed to a quite broad audience,
including practitioners and researchers interested in scheduling, and also
to graduate or advanced undergraduate students in computer
science/engineering, operations research, industrial and real-time
engineering, management science, business administration, information
systems, and applied mathematics curricula.
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