Stochastic scheduling /

"Stochastic scheduling is in the area of production scheduling. There is a dearth of work that analyzes the variability of schedules. In a stochastic environment, in which the processing time of a job is not known with certainty, a schedule is typically analyzed based on the expected value of a...

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Main Author: Sarin, Subhash Chander
Other Authors: Nagarajan, Balaji, Liao, Lingrui
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Robust scheduling approaches to hedge against processing time uncertainty
  • Expectation-variance analysis in stochastic multiobjective scheduling
  • Single-machine models
  • Flow shop models
  • Job-shop models
  • Parallel-machine models
  • The case of general processing time distribution
  • Concluding remarks.