Fifty years of scheduling: A survey of milestones

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Potts, C N ^a   Strusevich, V A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

History; Milestones; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; SCHEDULING;

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; COMBINATORIAL ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; MILESTONES; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; SCHEDULING MODELS; SCHEDULING RESEARCH;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 64749108679     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2009.2     Document Type: Article

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