Stochastic Scheduling: Expectation-Variance Analysis Of A Schedule

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 Web site for ease of student and user implementation.

• • Author: Subhash C. Sarin, Balaji Nagarajan, Lingrui Liao
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Jan 02, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 208 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107637902
• • ISBN-13: 9781107637900