This new edition 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 material in the form of slide-shows from industry and movies that show implementations of scheduling systems.
The main structure of the book as per previous edition consists of three parts. The first part focuses on deterministic scheduling and the related combinatorial problems. The second part covers probabilistic scheduling models; in this part it is assumed that processing times and other problem data are random and not known in advance. The third part deals with scheduling in practice; it covers heuristics that are popular with practitioners and discusses system design and implementation issues. All three parts of this new edition have been revamped and streamlined. The references have been made completely up-to-date.
Theoreticians and practitioners alike will find this book of interest. Graduate students in operations management, operations research, industrial engineering, and computer science will find the book an accessible and invaluable resource.
Scheduling - Theory, Algorithms, and Systems will serve as an essential reference for professionals working on scheduling problems in manufacturing, services, and other environments.
Author(s): Michael L. Pinedo (auth.)
Edition: 5
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XX, 670
Tags: Operations Research, Management Science; Industrial and Production Engineering; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Systems Theory, Control
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Deterministic Models: Preliminaries....Pages 13-32
Single Machine Models (Deterministic)....Pages 33-69
Advanced Single Machine Models (Deterministic)....Pages 71-111
Parallel Machine Models (Deterministic)....Pages 113-150
Flow Shops and Flexible Flow Shops (Deterministic)....Pages 151-181
Job Shops (Deterministic)....Pages 183-220
Open Shops (Deterministic)....Pages 221-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Stochastic Models: Preliminaries....Pages 245-263
Single Machine Models (Stochastic)....Pages 265-291
Single Machine Models with Release Dates (Stochastic)....Pages 293-317
Parallel Machine Models (Stochastic)....Pages 319-348
Flow Shops, Job Shops and Open Shops (Stochastic)....Pages 349-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
General Purpose Procedures for Deterministic Scheduling....Pages 375-398
More Advanced General Purpose Procedures....Pages 399-429
Modeling and Solving Scheduling Problems in Practice....Pages 431-458
Design and Implementation of Scheduling Systems: Basic Concepts....Pages 459-483
Design and Implementation of Scheduling Systems: More Advanced Concepts....Pages 485-508
Examples of System Designs and Implementations....Pages 509-544
What Lies Ahead?....Pages 545-554
Back Matter....Pages 555-670
