TY - CHAP AU - Frederic Dugardin AU - Hicham Chehade AU - Lionel Amodeo AU - Farouk Yalaoui AU - Christian Prins ED - Eugene Levner Y1 - 2007-12-01 PY - 2007 T1 - Hybrid Job Shop and Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems: Minimization of Total Tardiness Criterion N2 - A major goal of the book is to continue a good tradition - to bring together reputable researchers from different countries in order to provide a comprehensive coverage of advanced and modern topics in scheduling not yet reflected by other books. The virtual consortium of the authors has been created by using electronic exchanges; it comprises 50 authors from 18 different countries who have submitted 23 contributions to this collective product. In this sense, the volume can be added to a bookshelf with similar collective publications in scheduling, started by Coffman (1976) and successfully continued by Chretienne et al. (1995), Gutin and Punnen (2002), and Leung (2004). This volume contains four major parts that cover the following directions: the state of the art in theory and algorithms for classical and non-standard scheduling problems; new exact optimization algorithms, approximation algorithms with performance guarantees, heuristics and metaheuristics; novel models and approaches to scheduling; and, last but least, several real-life applications and case studies. BT - Multiprocessor Scheduling SP - Ch. 16 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/5227 DO - 10.5772/5227 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -