The scheduling research field has been active and expanding for over forty years. In that time, the field has attracted a wealth of international interest from a variety of academic disciplines. This field has been a truly inter-disciplinary research area, with significant scientific advances...

Introduction -- Classical Techniques -- Integer Programming -- Genetic Algorithms -- Scatter Search -- Genetic Programming -- Artificial Immune Systems -- Swarm Intelligence -- Tabu Search -- Simulated Annealing -- GRASP: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures -- Variable Neighborhood...