This book provides a theoretical and application oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems arising in computer and manufacturing environments. In such systems processors (machines) and possibly other resources are to be allocated among tasks in such a way that certain scheduling...

This book provides a theoretical and application oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems arising in computer and manufacturing environments. In such systems processors (machines) and possibly other resources are to be allocated among tasks in such a way that certain scheduling...

A problem is studied in which several non-cooperating clients compete for earlier execution of their jobs in a processing sequence of a single service provider in order to minimize job completion time costs. The clients can move their jobs earlier in a given sequence. They are assumed not to...