A well known industry application that allows controllable processing times is the manufacturing operations on CNC machines. For each turning operation as an example, there is a n...
The grid vision of a single computing utility has yet to materialize: while many grids with thousands of processors each exist, most work in isolation. An important obstacle for t...
Alexandru Iosup, Todd Tannenbaum, Matthew Farrelle...
Companies that provide crane-lorry services are faced with the daily need to perform vehicle and driver allocation and scheduling. Many companies still do this manually due to the ...
The centralized system approach for computer and telecommunication network management has been presenting scalability problems along with the growth in the number and diversity of...
We study algorithmic problems in multi-stage open shop processing systems that are centered around reachability and deadlock detection questions. We characterize safe and unsafe s...
Christian Eggermont, Alexander Schrijver, Gerhard ...