collected and edited by Jan Karel Lenstra and David B. Shmoys
This website presents the fragments of a book on machine scheduling. Work on the book started in but was never completed. The existing material is now made available for teaching purposes.
PRELIMINARIES
Chapter 1 Deterministic machine scheduling problems
Chapter 2 Tools from algorithms and complexity theory
THE SINGLE MACHINE
Chapter 3 Minmax criteria
Chapter 4 Weighted sum of completion times
Chapter 5 Weighted number of late jobs
PARALLEL MACHINES
Chapter 7 Minsum criteria
Chapter 8 Minmax criteria without preemption
Chapter 9 Minmax criteria with preemption
MULTI-OPERATION MODELS
Chapter 11 Open shops
Chapter 12 Flow shops
Chapter 13 Job shops
MORE SCHEDULING
Chapter 14 Stochastic scheduling models
Chapter 15 Scheduling in practice
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SURVEY PAPERS
Graham, Lawler, Lenstra, and Rinnooy Kan [1979]
Lawler, Lenstra, Rinnooy Kan, and Shmoys [1993]
Lenstra [1998]