Wieslaw Kubiak is University Research Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada. His research focuses on co-operation and optimization in networks and supply chains, proportional fairness, just-in-time systems and scheduling theory. His professional interests include business analytics, operations strategy, intelligent optimization strategies for business and industry with multiple stakeholders and conflicting interests, and health-care engineering. Dr. Kubiak is also an Associate Editor for the journals Discrete Applied Mathematics, INFOR, and Algorithms and is on the editorial board of Decision-Making in Manufacturing and Services.

• Chapter 1: Preliminaries.- Chapter 2: Makespan minimization for two-machine open shops.- Chapter 3: General open shop scheduling.- Chapter 4: Multiprocessor operations.- Chapter 5: Concurrent open shops.- Chapter 6: Open shop scheduling with simultaneity constraints.- Chapter 7: Proportionate and ordered open shops.- Chapter 8: Multiprocessor open shops.- Chapter 9: Compact scheduling of open shops.- Chapter 10: No-wait open shop scheduling.- Chapter 11: Applications of preemptive open shop scheduling.- Chapter 12: Two-machine open shop scheduling with time lags.- Index.