Flexibility and Robustness in Scheduling

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Flexibility and Robustness in Scheduling is written by Jean-Charles Billaut and published by John Wiley & Sons. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1118623398 (ISBN 10) and 9781118623398 (ISBN 13).

Scheduling is a broad research area and scheduling problems arise from several application domains (production systems, logistic, computer science, etc.). Solving scheduling problems requires tools of combinatorial optimization, exact or approximated algorithms. Flexibility is at the frontier between predictive deterministic approaches and reactive or "on-line" approaches. The purpose of flexibility is to provide one or more solutions adapted to the context of the application in order to provide the ideal solution. This book focuses on the integration of flexibility and robustness considerations in the study of scheduling problems. After considering both flexibility and robustness, it then covers various scheduling problems, treated with an emphasis on flexibility or robustness, or both.