"This book focuses on planning and scheduling applications. Planning and scheduling are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and services industries. The planning and scheduling functions in a company typically use analytical techniques and heuristic methods to allocate its limited resources to the activities that have to be done. The book comes with a CD-ROM that contains various sets of powerpoint slides. The CD also contains several planning and scheduling systems that have been developed in academia as well as generic optimization software that has been developed in industry. This book is suitable for more advanced students in industrial engineering and operations research as well as graduate students in business. (Midwest)."
"Focuses on planning and scheduling applications. The application areas considered in this book are divided into manufacturing applications and services applications. It also covers the fundamentals concerning the methodologies used in the application chapters. It is useful for advanced students in industrial engineering and operations research."@en