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Deterministic and Stochastic Scheduling

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((ASIC,volume 84))

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The fifteen contributions to the first part of these proceedings provide an extensive survey of the area of deterministic and stochastic scheduling, and also review a few prominent interfaces between these two approaches.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    M. A. H. Dempster

  2. Balliol College, Oxford, England

    M. A. H. Dempster

  3. Mathematisch Centrum, P.O. Box 4079, 1009 AB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J. K. Lenstra

  4. Econometric Institute H2-11, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    M. A. H. Dempster

  2. Balliol College, Oxford, England

    M. A. H. Dempster

  3. Mathematisch Centrum, P.O. Box 4079, 1009 AB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J. K. Lenstra

  4. Econometric Institute H2-11, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan

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Dempster, M.A.H., Lenstra, J.K., Rinnooy Kan, A.H.G. (1982). Introduction. In: Dempster, M.A.H., Lenstra, J.K., Rinnooy Kan, A.H.G. (eds) Deterministic and Stochastic Scheduling. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7801-0_1

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