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...

Digital Control in Metallurgical Processes -- Control investigations on a nonlinear lumped-parameter model of a sintering process -- Einsatz eines Prozessrechners zur Durchsatzmaximierung an einer quasi-kontinuierlichen fertigungsstrasse -- Dynamic control of multistand aluminum cold rolling...