Multiagent Scheduling Models and Algorithms

Scheduling theory has received a growing interest since its origins in the second half of the 20th century. Developed initially for the study of scheduling problems with a single objective, the theory has been recently extended to problems involving multi

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Multiagent Scheduling Models and Algorithms

Multiagent Scheduling

Alessandro Agnetis • Jean-Charles Billaut • Stanisław Gawiejnowicz • Dario Pacciarelli • Ameur Soukhal

Multiagent Scheduling Models and Algorithms

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Alessandro Agnetis Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione e Scienze Matematiche UniversitJa di Siena Siena, Italy

Jean-Charles Billaut Ameur Soukhal Laboratoire d’Informatique Université François Rabelais Tours Tours, France

Stanisław Gawiejnowicz Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University Pozna´n, Poland

Dario Pacciarelli Dipartimento di Ingegneria UniversitJa Roma Tre Roma, Italy

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To Silvia, Walter and Gaia Alessandro Agnetis To my parents Jean-Charles Billaut To Mirosława and Agnieszka Stanisław Gawiejnowicz To my parents Dario Pacciarelli To my parents Ameur Soukhal

Preface

Scheduling problems are combinatorial optimization problems in which some activities have to be executed using resources that they need. A feasible allocation of the res