Stochastic Scheduling

Dr Subhash Sarin earned his PhD at North Carolina State University in 1978. He has made research contributions in production scheduling, sequencing, applied mathematical programming, and analyzing and designing algorithms for the operational control of manufacturing systems. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Planning and Control. Currently, Dr Sarin is the Paul T. Norton Endowed Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He is also Director of the Electronics Manufacturing Research Laboratory there, which provides a facility to support research on semiconductors and the electronics industry.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Robust scheduling approaches to hedge against processing time uncertainty; 3. Expectation-variance analysis in stochastic multi-objective scheduling; 4. Single machine models; 5. Flow shop models; 6. Job shop models; 7. The case of general processing time distribution; 8. Concluding remarks.