Flexibility and Robustness in Scheduling

Scheduling is a broad research area and scheduling problems arisefrom several application domains (production systems, logistic, computer science, etc.). Solving scheduling problems requires toolsof combinatorial optimization, exact or approximated algorithms. Flexibility is at the frontier between predictive deterministicapproaches and reactive or ? on-line? approaches. The purpose offlexibility is to provide one or more solutions adapted to thecontext of the application in order to provide the ideal solution. This book focuses on the integration of flexibility and robustnessconsiderations in the study of scheduling problems. Afterconsidering both flexibility and robustness, it then covers variousscheduling problems, treated with an emphasis on flexibility orrobustness, or both.