BUSINESS Q793 / Sequencing and Scheduling

3 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): BUSINESS O600 or permission of the instructor.

This course deals with topics arising in operations management and control, typically in situations where scarce resources have to be allocated to activities over time. It concentrates on deterministic scheduling models. Main topics include complexity results and optimization and approximation algorithms for problems on single machines, parallel machines, open shops, flow shops, job shops, and resource-constrained project scheduling.