TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarin,Subhash Chander
AU  - Nagarajan,Balaji
AU  - Liao,Lingrui
TI  - Stochastic scheduling
SN  - 9780521518512
U1  - 658.53 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Production scheduling
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction --
2. Robust scheduling approaches to hedge against processing time uncertainty --
3. Expectation-variance analysis in stochastic multiobjective scheduling --
4. Single-machine models --
5. Flow shop models --
6. Job-shop models --
7. Parallel-machine models --
8. The case of general processing time distribution --
9. Concluding remarks --
Appendices
N2  - Stochastic scheduling is in the area of production scheduling. There is a dearth of work that analyzes the variability of schedules. In a stochastic environment, in which the processing time of a job is not known with certainty, a schedule is typically analyzed based on the expected value of a performance measure. This book addresses this problem and presents algorithms to determine the variability of a schedule under various machine configurations and objective functions. It is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in manufacturing, operations management, applied mathematics, and computer science, and it is also a good reference book for practitioners. Computer software containing the algorithms is provided on an accompanying website for ease of student and user implementation
ER  -