By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. We investigate the following two related hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in...

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...

Die bisher in vielen Unternehmen eingesetzten Anwendungssysteme bei der Beschaffung direkter Güter orientieren sich stark an den in der betrieblichen Praxis vorzufindenden Organisationsstrukturen. Dies verhindert einen reibungslosen Informations- und Kommunikationsfluss in den...

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...