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Multidisciplinary Scheduling: Theory and Applications

1st International Conference, MISTA '03 Nottingham, UK, 13-15 August 2003. Selected Papers

  • The Multidisciplinary International Conference of Scheduling (MISTA) series, for the first time, offers researchers a specific conference where they can report results from any application area and from any discipline.

  • This volume contains a set of selected, fully refereed, papers from the first conference

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Fundamentals of Scheduling

    1. Is Scheduling a Solved Problem?

      • Stephen F. Smith
      Pages 3-17
    2. Order Scheduling Models: An Overview

      • Joseph Y-T. Leung, Haibing Li, Michael Pinedo
      Pages 37-53
  3. Personnel Scheduling

    1. Task Scheduling Under Gang Constraints

      • Dirk Christian Mattfeld, Jürgen Branke
      Pages 113-130
  4. Scheduling in Space

    1. Constraint-Based Random Search for Solving Spacecraft Downlink Scheduling Problems

      • Angelo Oddi, Nicola Policella, Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa
      Pages 133-160
  5. Scheduling the Internet

    1. A Scheduling Web Service

      • Leonilde Varela, Joaquim Aparício, Sílvio Carmo do Silva
      Pages 187-201
  6. Machine Scheduling

    1. An O(N log N) Stable Algorithm for Immediate Selections Adjustments

      • Laurent Péridy, David Rivreau
      Pages 205-222
    2. A Dynamic Model of Tabu Search for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem

      • Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe
      Pages 247-266
  7. Bin Packing

    1. The Best-Fit Rule for Multibin Packing: An Extension of Graham's List Algorithms

      • Pierre Lemaire, Gerd Finke, Nadia Brauner
      Pages 269-286
  8. Educational Timetabling

    1. Case-Based Initialisation of Metaheuristics for Examination Timetabling

      • Sanja Petrovic, Yong Yang, Moshe Dror
      Pages 289-308
  9. Sports Scheduling

  10. Transport Scheduling

    1. Rail Container Service Planning: A Constraint-Based Approach

      • Nakorn Indra-Payoong, Raymond S K Kwan, Les Proll
      Pages 343-368
    2. Measuring the Robustness of Airline Fleet Schedules

      • F. Bian, E. K. Burke, S. Jain, G. Kendall, G. M. Koole, J. D. Landa Silva et al.
      Pages 381-392

About this book

Multidisciplinary Scheduling: Theory and Applications is a volume of nineteen reviewed papers that were selected from the sixty-seven papers presented during the First Multidisciplinary International Conference of Scheduling (MISTA). This is the initial volume of MISTA—the primary forum on interdisciplinary research on scheduling research. Each paper in the volume has been rigorously reviewed and carefully copyedited to ensure its readability.

The MISTA volume focuses on the following leading edge topics: Fundamentals of Scheduling, Multi-Criteria Scheduling, Personnel Scheduling, Scheduling in Space, Scheduling the Internet, Machine Scheduling, Bin Packing, Educational Timetabling, Sports Scheduling, and Transport Scheduling.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Univ. of Nottingham, UK

    Graham Kendall, Edmund K. Burke, Sanja Petrovic

  • Université de Montréal, Canada

    Michel Gendreau

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