This book is the result of my research perfonned at the University Kiel under the supervision
of Professor Dr. Andreas Drexl. I am very grateful to him for suggesting the subject as well as …

The use of Lagrangian relaxation to schedule job shops, which include multiple machine
types, generic precedence constraints, and simple routing considerations, is explored. Using …

Project management has become a widespread instrument enabling organizations to
efficiently master the challenges of steadily shortening product life cycles, global markets …

An extensive search of journal publications on heuristic methods and applications produced
442 articles published in 37 journals during the last sixteen years. A scheme is employed to …

In this paper, we study the use of IEEE 802.11 e for priority based messaging in Military Inter-
Vehicle Communications (IVC). In the battlefield, messages generated by military vehicles …

We consider the block scheduling problem arising in a shipyard. The problem is complicated
since we are considering both scheduling and spatial allocation of each block …

A methodology is presented for scheduling jobs on identical, parallel machines. Each job
comprises a small number of operations that must be processed in a specified order. The …

Purchasing. Fabrication Assembly Distribution Figure 1.1: Multi-Level Manufacturing System
for Make-to-Order Products specific resources of a type, ie, a certain machine or a single …

Performance of two new integer programming based heuristics together with some special
purpose algorithms for project scheduling are tested from a computational point of view. The …

The problem of scheduling multiple, large-scale, make-to-order assemblies is considered.
Besideclassical'precedence and resource constraints as known from resource-constrained …