This book provides a theoretical and application oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems arising in computer and manufacturing environments. In such systems processors (machines) and possibly other resources are to be allocated among tasks in such a way that certain scheduling...

This book provides a theoretical and application oriented analysis of deterministic scheduling problems arising in computer and manufacturing environments. In such systems processors (machines) and possibly other resources are to be allocated among tasks in such a way that certain scheduling...

Intro -- Contents -- Material on Enclosed CD-ROM -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Setting the Stage -- 2 Describing Processes -- 3 Seven Approaches to Variation Reduction -- 4 An Algorithm for Reducing Variation -- 5 Obtaining Process Knowledge...