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Let us first describe the purpose of this book, starting with the explanation of its title. In general, scheduling problems can be understood very broadly as the problems of allocating resources over time to perform a set of tasks being parts of some processes, among which computational and manufacturing ones are most important. Tasks individually compete for resources which can be of a very different nature, e.g. manpower, money, processors (machines), energy, tools. The same is true for task characteristics, e.g. ready times, due dates, relative urgency weights, functions describing task processing in relation to allotted resources. Moreover, a structure of a set of tasks, reflecting precedence constraints among them, can be defined in different ways. In addition, different criteria which measure the quality of the performance of a set of tasks can be taken into account.
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Błażewicz, J., Ecker, K.H., Pesch, E., Schmidt, G., Węglarz, J. (2001). Introduction. In: Scheduling Computer and Manufacturing Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04363-9_1
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