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Scheduling can be loosely defined as the art of assigning resources to tasks in order to insure the termination of the tasks in a reasonable amount of time or to minimize a certain cost function. Since the terminology of scheduling theory arose in the processing and manufacturing industries, one generally speaks of “machines” instead of resources and of “jobs” instead of tasks that have to be “processed” by the machines.
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Neumann, K. (1990). Scheduling with GERT Precedence Constraints. In: Stochastic Project Networks. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 344. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61515-3_5
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