The scheduling research field has been active and expanding for over forty years. In that time, the field has attracted a wealth of international interest from a variety of academic disciplines. This field has been a truly inter-disciplinary research area, with significant scientific advances...

Introduction -- Classical Techniques -- Integer Programming -- Genetic Algorithms -- Scatter Search -- Genetic Programming -- Artificial Immune Systems -- Swarm Intelligence -- Tabu Search -- Simulated Annealing -- GRASP: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures -- Variable Neighborhood...

This paper presents new models of continuous review inventory control with or without backorder in the presence of uncertainty. Fuzzy set concepts are used to treat imprecision regarding the costs of continuous review inventory control, while probability theory is used to treat uncertainty...