Scheduling

Scheduling is the operational planning process that allocates limited resources and determines the sequence and timing of tasks or activities to optimize specified organizational objectives subject to capacity and operational constraints.

63.6K

Publications

3.3M

Citations

91.6K

Authors

8.9K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

16.9K

Parents

Decision SciencesIndustrial EngineeringOperations Management

Children

Appointment SchedulingBatch SchedulingCrew SchedulingDue-date SchedulingDynamic SchedulingFlexible Manufacturing SchedulingFlow Shop SchedulingJob Shop SchedulingMachine SchedulingMaintenance Scheduling

Publications

63.6K

Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents

Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo, A. Colorni · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics) · 1996 · 11.9K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +16

Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment

C. L. Liu, J. W. Layland · Journal of the ACM · 1973 · 8.3K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +16

Scheduling: Theory, Algorithms, and Systems

Michael Pinedo · IIE Transactions · 1996 · 6.3K citations

Management, Computer Science, Operations Management +12

Tabu Search—Part I

Fred Glover · INFORMS Journal on Computing · 1989 · 5K citations

Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Algorithms +15

Event-Triggered Real-Time Scheduling of Stabilizing Control Tasks

Paulo Tabuada · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2007 · 4.6K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +12

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Authors

91.6K

QP
Quan-Ke Pan
Liaocheng University, China
154 publications · 15.6K citations
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LW
Ling Wang
Tsinghua University, China
148 publications · 13.2K citations
73
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LG
Liang Gao
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
167 publications · 13.5K citations
71
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TC
T.C.E. Cheng
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR China
314 publications · 15.5K citations
63
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MZ
MengChu Zhou
New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
145 publications · 10.9K citations
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Institutions

8.9K

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Venues

European Journal of Operational Research
1.9K publications · 155K citations
175
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Operations Research
617 publications · 80.3K citations
146
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IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
640 publications · 67.9K citations
141
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Management Science
477 publications · 59K citations
128
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Computers & Operations Research
1.2K publications · 74.4K citations
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See also Scheduling
Core Methods	Mathematical Programming Rule-based Scheduling Genetic Algorithms Particle Swarm Optimization Grey Wolf Optimizer Ant Colony Optimization Artificial Bee Colony Approximate Dynamic Programming Branch And Bound Simulated Annealing Tabu Search Petri Nets Linear Programming Dynamic Programming Mixed-integer Linear Programming Reinforcement Learning Iterated Local Search Hyper-heuristics
Problem Variants	Single-machine Scheduling Parallel Machine Scheduling Identical Parallel Machine Scheduling Flow Shop Scheduling Job Shop Scheduling Open Shop Scheduling Batch Scheduling Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Multiprocessor Scheduling Resource-constrained Project Scheduling
Constraints	Precedence Relationships Resource-constrained Capacity Allocation Release Dates Due Dates Preemption
Objectives	Maximum Lateness Resource Utilization Power Consumption Work-in-process Inventory Management
Applications	Manufacturing Logistics Management Cloud Computing Fog Computing Nurse Rostering Container Handling Equipment Railway Scheduling Agriculture Virtual Machine Scheduling