Automated Scheduling and Planning From Theory to Practice
Solving scheduling problems has long presented a challenge for computer scientists and operations researchers. The field continues to expand as researchers and practitioners examine ever more challenging problems and develop automated methods capabl
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A. Şima Etaner-Uyar Ender Özcan Neil Urquhart Editors
Automated Scheduling and Planning From Theory to Practice
Studies in Computational Intelligence Volume 505
Series Editor Janusz Kacprzyk, Warsaw, Poland
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A. Sima ¸ Etaner-Uyar · Ender Özcan Neil Urquhart Editors
Automated Scheduling and Planning From Theory to Practice
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Editors A. Sima ¸ Etaner-Uyar Elektrik-Elektronik Fakultesi Istanbul Teknik Universitesi Istanbul Turkey
Neil Urquhart Centre for Emergent Computing Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh UK
Ender Özcan School of Computer Science University of Nottingham Nottingham UK
ISSN 1860-949X ISBN 978-3-642-39303-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-39304-4
ISSN 1860-9503 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-39304-4 (eBook)
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Foreword
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