Stochastic Scheduling: Expectation-Variance Analysis of a Schedule

By Balaji Nagarajan, Lingrui Liao, Subhash C Sarin

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107637902
• ISBN13: 9781107637900
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 10.0"