Description:
This volume presents meta-heuristics approaches for scheduling problems arising in industrial and manufacturing applications. The present volume is the first book on scheduling problems in Grid, P2P and other Emergent Computational Systems.
Review Quotes:
From the reviews:
"This balanced collection of 13 chapters presents quality research, with each chapter describing an industrial or manufacturing case related to scheduling. ... The use of heuristics is very appropriate for most scheduling problems ... . The problems, methods, and approaches presented in the book are very diverse, offering a good starting point for solving most practical scheduling problems. ... An advantage of the book--the diversity of the problems and solutions presented ... ." (Waldemar Koczkodaj, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009)