Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis Edited by Joseph Y-T. Leung

Researchers in management, industrial engineering, operations, and computer science have intensely studied scheduling for more than 50 years, resulting in an astounding body of knowledge in this field. Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis, the first handbook on scheduling, provides full coverage of the most recent and advanced topics on the subject. It assembles researchers from all relevant disciplines in order to facilitate cross-fertilization and create new scheduling insights. More than 90 authors have contributed articles, making the Handbook a complete and timely treatise on the topic of scheduling. Handbook of Scheduling: Algorithms, Models, and Performance Analysis: Provides full coverage of the most recent advances in scheduling, gathering authors and topics from across the fields of management, industrial engineering, operations research, and computer science Includes many applications, addressing scheduling problems in transportation and process industries, as well as in hospitals and educational institutions Examines job shop, flow shop, open shop, and cycle shop problems Covers five major objective functions in classical scheduling theory: makespan, maximum lateness, total weighted completion time, total weighted number of late jobs, and total weighted tardiness Introduces constraint programming (CP) and a new vehicle routing heuristic known as Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search. Covers extensively real-time scheduling and stochastic scheduling. Introduces new scheduling models that are different from the classical model. Joseph Y-T Leung Ph.D, is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.