Scheduling

This new edition of the
well-established text Scheduling:
Theory, Algorithms, and Systems provides an up-to-date coverage
of important theoretical models in the scheduling literature as
well as important scheduling problems that appear in the real
world.  The accompanying website includes supplementary material
in the form of slide-shows from industry as well as movies that show actual
implementations of scheduling systems.

The main structure of the book, as per
previous editions, consists of three parts.  The first part
focuses on deterministic scheduling and the related combinatorial
problems.  The second part covers probabilistic scheduling models; in
this part it is assumed that processing times and other problem data are
random and not known in advance.   The third part deals with
scheduling in practice; it covers heuristics that are popular with
practitioners and discusses system design and implementation issues.  All three parts of this new edition have
been revamped, streamlined, and extended.  The references have been
made completely up-to-date. 

Theoreticians and practitioners
alike will find this book of interest.  Graduate students in
operations management, operations research, industrial engineering, and
computer science will find the book an accessible and invaluable
resource.  Scheduling: Theory,
Algorithms, and Systems will serve as an essential reference for
professionals working on scheduling problems in
manufacturing, services, and other environments. 

Michael L. Pinedo is the Julius
Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management in the Stern School of Business
at New York University. 
Review of third edition:
"This well-established text covers both the
theory and practice of scheduling. The book begins with motivating examples and
the penultimate chapter discusses some commercial scheduling systems and
examples of their implementations." (Mathematical Reviews, 2009)