This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and applications of scheduling in advanced planning and computer systems. It addresses a broad audience including practitioners and researchers interested in scheduling, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of computer science and computer engineering, operations research, industrial and real-time engineering, management science, business administration and information systems, and applied mathematics.
The book begins by providing an introduction to and basic concepts from discrete mathematics. Single and multiple processor systems are covered, with a focus on multiprocessor tasks and hard real-time systems. Flow shop and open shop scheduling, as well as scheduling in job shops, are explained in detail. Issues like limited processor availability, time-dependence, resource constraints and imprecise computations are dealt with in dedicated chapters. Special attention is given to onlinescheduling, constraint programming and disjunctive scheduling. The book also features applications and cases involving flexible manufacturing systems, computer integrated production scheduling and logistics. In particular it presents case studies on optimization procedures for the production of acrylic glass and of helicopter parts in a flexible manufacturing system, an efficient decision support system for airport gate scheduling, concrete delivery planning, and berth and quay crane allocation at seaports.

Auteur
Jacek Blazewicz is professor of Computer Science at the Poznan University of Technology (Poland). He is IFORS Vice President for EURO, an IEEE Fellow, and co-laureate of the EURO Gold Medal, Copernicus Prize and several Awards of the Polish Ministry of Science. Klaus Ecker received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Graz (Austria), and his habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Bonn (Germany). Since 1978 he is a professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Clausthal (Germany), and from 2005 until 2009 he was visiting professor at the Ohio University (USA).

Erwin Pesch has Ph.D. in Mathematics and habilitation in Business Administration. He worked at universities in Darmstadt, Maastricht and Bonn. He is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University in Siegen (Germany) and director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Management (CASiM) at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management (Germany). Together with Jacek Baewicz he received the Copernicus Prize in 2012 jointly awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP). In 2017 he received the Science Award of the German Operations Research Society (GOR).

Malgorzata Sterna is associate professor at the Faculty of Computing of the Poznan University of Technology (Poland), from which she received Ph.D. and habilitation in Computer Science. She is a recipient of the stipend of the Foundation for Polish Science and the award of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Technical Sciences).

Günter Schmidt is professor of Operations Research and Business Informatics at the Computer Science Department and the Business School at Saarland University (Germany). He is member of Graduate School for Computer Science, researcher at Max Planck Institut Informatik and director of the Institute of Information and Communication Systems. He is also honorary professor at the University of Cape Town (South Africa).

Jan Wglarz is professor of Computing at the Pozna University of Technology (Poland), and director of the Pozna Supercomputing and Networking Center. He is co-laureate of the EURO Gold Medal and a recipient of the Foundation for Polish Science Award.

Résumé
This handbook is in a sense a continuation of Scheduling Computer and Manu facturing Processes [1], two editions of which have received kind acceptance of a wide readership. As the previous volume, it is the result of a long lasting Ger man-Polish collaboration. However, due to important reasons, it has a new form. Namely, following the suggestions of the Publisher, we decided to prepare a handbook filling out a gap on the market in the area. The gap concerns a unified approach to the most important scheduling models and methods with the special emphasis put on their relevance to practical situations. Thus, in comparison with [1], the contents has been changed significantly. This concerns not only correc tions we have introduced, following the suggestions made by many readers (we are very grateful to all of them) and taking into account our own experience, but first of all this means that important new material has been added. It is character ized in Chapter 1, and, generally speaking, covers a transition from theory to ap plications in a wide spectrum of scheduling problems, hidependently of this, in all chapters new results have been reported and new illustrative material, includ ing real-world problems, has been given. We very much hope that in this way the handbook will be of interest to a much wider readership than the former volume, the fact which has been under lined in the title.

Contenu
Introduction.- Basics.- Definition, Analysis and Classification of Scheduling Problems.- Scheduling on One Processor.- Scheduling on Parallel Processors.- Communication Delays and Multiprocessor Tasks.- Scheduling in Hard Real-Time Systems.- Flow Shop Scheduling.- Open Shop Scheduling.- Scheduling in Job Shops.- Scheduling with Limited Processor Availability.- Time-Dependent Scheduling.- Scheduling under Resource Constraints.- Scheduling Imprecise Computations.- Online Scheduling.- Constraint Programming and Disjunctive Scheduling.- Scheduling in flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Computer Integrated Production Scheduling.- Scheduling in Logistics.