"A Chapman & Hall book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the complexity of scheduling / Peter Brucker and Sigrid Knust -- Approximation algorithms for scheduling problems / Jean-Claude K�onig and Rodolphe Giroudeau -- Online scheduling / Susanne Albers -- Job scheduling / Uwe Schwiegelshohn -- Cyclic Scheduling / Claire Hanen -- Cyclic scheduling for the synthesis of embedded systems / Olivier Marchetti and Alix Munier-Kordon -- Steady-state scheduling / Olivier Beaumont and Loris Marchal -- Divisible load scheduling / Matthieu Gallet, Yves Robert, and Fr�ed�eric Vivien -- Multi-objective scheduling / Pierre-Fran�cois Dutot ... [et al.] -- Comparisons of stochastic task-resource systems / Bruno Gaujal and Jean-Marc Vincent -- The influence of platform models on scheduling techniques / Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Arnaud Lagrand.