This handbook covers not only in a unified approach the most important scheduling models and methods, it also put special emphasis to their relevance to practical situations. Many applications from industry and service operations management and case studies are described. Because the book offers...

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 --...