Multicriteria Scheduling Theory, Models and Algorithms
Scheduling and multicriteria optimisation theory have been subject, separately, to numerous studies. Since the last fifteen years, multicriteria scheduling problems have been subject to a growing interest. However, a gap between multicriteria scheduling a
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Vincent T'kindt Jean-Charles Billaut
Multicriteria Scheduling Theory, Models and Algorithms Translated from French by Henry Scott
With 126 Figures and 22 Tables
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Assistant Professor Vincent T'kindt, Ph.D. Professor Jean-Charles Billaut Universite Fran.yois-Rabelais Tours Laboratoire d'Informatique E3i, 64 avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France
Translator Henry Scott www.hgs-scientific-translations.co.uk
ISBN 978-3-662-04988-4 ISBN 978-3-662-04986-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-04986-0
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Preface
Prom Theory to Practice, there is a world, and scheduling does not escape this immutable rule. For more than fifty years, theoretical researches on scheduling and complexity theory have improved our knowledge on both a typology of academic problems, mainly involving a single criterion, and on their solving. Though this work is far from being completed, a few famous books have been a major breakthrough. The typology will be all the more useful as it takes more and more realistic constraints into account. This is just a matter of time. The relevance of some single criteria, their equivalence and their conflict have been studied ... Yet, numerous genuine problems, even outside the realm of scheduling, do not square with these single criterion approaches. For example, in a production shop, mi
