Stochastic scheduling / Subhash C. Sarin, Balaji Nagarajan, Lingrui Liao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarin, Subhash Chander, author.

Nagarajan, Balaji, author.

Liao, Lingrui, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Production scheduling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Robust scheduling approaches to hedge against processing time uncertainty

Expectation-variance analysis in stochastic multiobjective scheduling

Single-machine models

Flow shop models

Job-shop models

Parallel-machine models

The case of general processing time distribution

Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-186) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20697-9

0-511-77803-1

1-282-65343-1

9786612653438

0-511-76938-5

0-511-77023-5

0-511-76715-3

0-511-76576-2

0-511-76854-0

OCLC:

645097663